automake 1.10 has started complaining about GNU Make-isms. This is fair
enough, but it seems to satisfy a fairly small constituency (those using GNU
autotools without GNU make) while annoying a rather larger one (those who
enjoy the power of GNU make). While I understand why you'd want to make
these warnings appear by default, it'd be nice to have a way to turn them
off.
"That's -Wno-portability!" I hear you cry. Ah, but the documentation only
tells me that -Wportability catches portability errors *including* GNU
make-isms. I'm still keen to know about other portability errors I make.
Would it be possible to have separate warnings for use of GNU extensions and
other non-portable usages? This would make life easier for the punctilious
developer who also is content to require a GNU build environment.
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