Re: [ANN] m4-1.4.17 released [stable]

2013-09-23 Thread Gary V. Vaughan
Hi Eric, On Sep 24, 2013, at 10:07 AM, Eric Blake wrote: > On 09/23/2013 09:28 AM, Gary V. Vaughan wrote: >> >> Clearly, it should at least check whether the compiler is actually gcc >> before piling >> on the flags, although I don't think it is serious enough to warrant another >> release. >

Re: [ANN] m4-1.4.17 released [stable]

2013-09-23 Thread Eric Blake
On 09/23/2013 09:28 AM, Gary V. Vaughan wrote: > > Clearly, it should at least check whether the compiler is actually gcc before > piling > on the flags, although I don't think it is serious enough to warrant another > release. > > Eric, do you mind if I revert that change in branch-1.4 in case

Re: [ANN] m4-1.4.17 released [stable]

2013-09-23 Thread Gary V. Vaughan
Hi Dago, Thanks for the analysis. On Sep 23, 2013, at 10:07 PM, Dagobert Michelsen wrote: > I didn't enable gcc-warnings, but as it turns out this flag is automatically > enabled when $srcdir/.git is present: > > AC_ARG_ENABLE([gcc-warnings], > [AS_HELP_STRING([--enable-gcc-warnings], >

Re: [ANN] m4-1.4.17 released [stable]

2013-09-23 Thread Paul Eggert
On 09/23/13 08:40, Eric Blake wrote: > -fdiagnostics-show-option is very useful for gcc; perhaps we > should tweak m4/manywarnings.m4 to add it to the set of warnings probed > by default when gcc warnings are enabled I'm not familiar with that option. Isn't it the default behavior for GCC nowada

Re: [ANN] m4-1.4.17 released [stable]

2013-09-23 Thread Paul Eggert
Eric Blake wrote: > is this > something where you can tackle the gnulib patch faster than I can? I can test something easily, yes, but I'm not sure what direction you're headed here.

Re: [ANN] m4-1.4.17 released [stable]

2013-09-23 Thread Eric Blake
On 09/23/2013 09:32 AM, Paul Eggert wrote: > Eric Blake wrote: >> is this >> something where you can tackle the gnulib patch faster than I can? > > I can test something easily, yes, but I'm not sure what > direction you're headed here. Basically, gl_WARN_ADD in gnulib/m4/warnings.m4 is trying to

Re: [ANN] m4-1.4.17 released [stable]

2013-09-23 Thread David Bernier
On 09/23/2013 11:30 AM, Eric Blake wrote: > Hello Dago, > > On 09/23/2013 09:07 AM, Dagobert Michelsen wrote: >> Hi Erik, > > It's Eric, but you're not the first to make that mistake :) > >>> I don't observe this behavior on my host (Sun Studio 12.3, >>> Solaris 10 sparc). I get the bad behavio

Re: [ANN] m4-1.4.17 released [stable]

2013-09-23 Thread Eric Blake
On 09/23/2013 11:03 AM, David Bernier wrote: > I hope I will be forgiven for quoting everything. Sure, even though your question is a bit of a FAQ and unrelated to the bug that started the thread. > Eric Blake wrote in part: > << use './configure --disable-gcc-warnings' until >>. > > It seems

Re: [ANN] m4-1.4.17 released [stable]

2013-09-23 Thread Eric Blake
Hello Dago, On 09/23/2013 09:07 AM, Dagobert Michelsen wrote: > Hi Erik, It's Eric, but you're not the first to make that mistake :) >> I don't observe this behavior on my host (Sun Studio 12.3, >> Solaris 10 sparc). I get the bad behavior only if I run >> 'configure' with the --enable-gcc-warn

Re: [ANN] m4-1.4.17 released [stable]

2013-09-23 Thread Dagobert Michelsen
Hi Erik, Am 23.09.2013 um 16:27 schrieb Paul Eggert : > Eric Blake wrote: >> On 09/22/2013 07:08 AM, Dagobert Michelsen wrote: >> The latest release is no longer compilable with Sun Studio 12.3 compiler as it automatically uses GCC-specific flags: > > I don't observe this b

Re: [ANN] m4-1.4.17 released [stable]

2013-09-23 Thread Paul Eggert
Eric Blake wrote: > On 09/22/2013 07:08 AM, Dagobert Michelsen wrote: > >> > >> > The latest release is no longer compilable with Sun Studio 12.3 compiler >> > as it >> > automatically uses GCC-specific flags: I don't observe this behavior on my host (Sun Studio 12.3, Solaris 10 sparc). I get

Re: [ANN] m4-1.4.17 released [stable]

2013-09-23 Thread Eric Blake
[adding bug-gnulib] On 09/22/2013 07:08 AM, Dagobert Michelsen wrote: > > The latest release is no longer compilable with Sun Studio 12.3 compiler as it > automatically uses GCC-specific flags: > >> /opt/solarisstudio12.3/bin/cc -D_STDC_C99= -fdiagnostics-show-option >> -funit-at-a-time -xO3

Re: [ANN] m4-1.4.17 released [stable]

2013-09-22 Thread Gary V. Vaughan
On Sep 22, 2013, at 8:08 PM, Dagobert Michelsen wrote: > Hi Gary, Hi Dago, > Am 22.09.2013 um 10:01 schrieb "Gary V. Vaughan" : >> This release is a minor update, but recommended for all users. >> >> Most notably, it closes an obscure potential security hole in a >> make-rule in the previous r

Re: [ANN] m4-1.4.17 released [stable]

2013-09-22 Thread Dagobert Michelsen
Hi Gary, Am 22.09.2013 um 10:01 schrieb "Gary V. Vaughan" : > This release is a minor update, but recommended for all users. > > Most notably, it closes an obscure potential security hole in a > make-rule in the previous release, since fixed in more recent Automake > releases, and thus in this M4