Paul Eggert <egg...@cs.ucla.edu> writes:
> On 2025-09-03 16:25, Bruno Haible via Bug reports for GNU grep wrote:
>> Still, in some circumstances, the current state of grep's
>> gnulib-tests/Makefile.am forces errors for warnings
>
> What circumstances are these? For grep we don't recommend
> --enable-gcc-warnings unless you know what you're doing.
>
> In the past I've preferred stricter warnings even for Gnulib, to help
> maintain the Gnulib stuff that I maintain.
If grep is the same as coreutils, then it is --enable-gcc-warnings is
enabled by default when there is a .git subdirectory.
Also, this patch makes things look similar to coreutils:
$ head -n 3 coreutils/gnulib-tests/Makefile.am
AM_CFLAGS = $(GNULIB_TEST_WARN_CFLAGS) $(WERROR_CFLAGS)
include gnulib.mk
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