On Sun, Jul 6, 2025, at 10:25 PM, Martin D Kealey wrote: > To help me find bugs in a range of projects, I have a wrapper around gcc > that forces -Werror -pedantic. > > [...] > > A significant source of detection failures is that the probes assume that > K&R function declarations (without parameters) are still valid. (Bzzzt! > Nope.) > > [...] > > *autoconf --version* >> autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.71 >> Copyright (C) 2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
These threads might be of interest. Some of the issues you're describing may have been addressed in Autoconf 2.72. https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/2022-11/msg00000.html https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/2023-12/msg00005.html > I expect to get a lot of errors during builds - that's the point - but what > I didn't expect was for autoconf to be broken. At least one person thinks that it doesn't make sense to run configure scripts this way in the first place. https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/2023-12/msg00008.html > Are there any plans to improve autoconf? This question seems more appropriate for <autoc...@gnu.org>. -- vq
