AC_CHECK_FUNC is not compatible with gcc -Werror

Hi, There is no news that AC_CHECK_FUNC fails to find built-in functions when either AC_LANG_WERROR is used or -Werror is included in CFLAGS: $ cat configure.ac AC_INIT AC_LANG_WERROR AC_CHECK_FUNC(memset) $ autoconf && ./configure checking for gcc... gcc checking whether the C compiler works..

Re: Hidden files in autoconf 2.70 distribution?

On Wed, Dec 09, 2020 at 04:06:20PM -0800, Jim Meyering wrote: > On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 3:49 PM Paul Eggert wrote: > > On 12/9/20 7:46 AM, Bruno Haible wrote: > > > It comes from Gnulib's git-version-gen and GNUmakefile. > > > > > > I'm not defending it. In fact, it annoys me. But I didn't spend the

Re: config.sub/config.guess using nonportable $(...) substitutions

Hi, On Mon, Mar 08, 2021 at 01:21:57PM -0500, Nick Bowler wrote: > Hi, > > I noticed that config.sub (and config.guess) scripts were very recently > changed to use the POSIX $(...) form for command substitutions. [...] > What was the motivation for this change? Backquotes work fine and are > mor