Paul Cochrane via RT wrote:
On Sun Jul 08 15:09:19 2007, ptc wrote:
At present we have to specify warnings flags for each version of gcc
(see config/auto/gcc.pm). This is a pain. Perl 5 is able to work out
automatically the warnings flags of gcc and then use those for
compilation. Parrot should do this too.
Automatic detection of gcc warnings has been implemented for a while
now, just not switched on by default. The code is in config/auto/
warnings.pm and I added it to trunk in r21522. This greatly reduces
the burden on warnings flag maintenance. Anyway, I'd like the code to
be on by default and to rip the old stuff out. Can I? Huh? Huh?
Please?
Paul
ptc, Thanks for being persistent with this. I have a few questions:
1. Where would it be placed in the list of configuration steps found in
lib/Parrot/Configure/Step/List.pm?
2. In http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=46373, I propose a
change in Parrot::Configure::Step::Base which affects the individual
configuration step classes. Can we adapt this class for that as well?
Plan is for this patch also to be applied after the release.
3. Can you supply at least a skeleton of a test file for this step?
(See tests for other 'auto' steps in the reconfigure/ branch; these will
soon be ported to trunk.)
4. Can you answer the question I posed in my July 8 response to your
original post?
Thank you very much.
Jim Keenan
