Re: [libvirt] [PATCHv2] build: avoid warnings on older gcc

The previous patch pulled in a newer version of stat-time.h from gnulib, which tries to suppress some stupid gcc warnings (see <http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54113>) by exploiting a feature of newer gcc. But we still aim to compile on RHEL 6.3, with gcc 4.4.6 (not to mention even older devel platforms like RHEL 5), which fails to build thanks to our development -Werror. It took me a while to figure out how to make our set of warnings smaller on older gcc without losing the benefit of the warnings when using newer gcc (such as the one on Fedora 17), but this should do the trick. * m4/virt-compile-warnings.m4 (LIBVIRT_COMPILE_WARNINGS): Avoid warnings that gnulib can't silence on older gcc. --- v2: Use AC_CACHE_CHECK, add -Werror, and test further. Pushing under the build-breaker rule. m4/virt-compile-warnings.m4 | 18 ++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+) diff --git a/m4/virt-compile-warnings.m4 b/m4/virt-compile-warnings.m4 index 9dee000..26f6134 100644 --- a/m4/virt-compile-warnings.m4 +++ b/m4/virt-compile-warnings.m4 @@ -58,6 +58,24 @@ AC_DEFUN([LIBVIRT_COMPILE_WARNINGS],[ # Gnulib's stat-time.h violates this dontwarn="$dontwarn -Waggregate-return" + # Gnulib uses '#pragma GCC diagnostic push' to silence some + # warnings, but older gcc doesn't support this. + AC_CACHE_CHECK([whether pragma GCC diagnostic push works], + [lv_cv_gcc_pragma_push_works], [ + save_CFLAGS=$CFLAGS + CFLAGS='-Wunknown-pragmas -Werror' + AC_COMPILE_IFELSE([AC_LANG_PROGRAM([[ + #pragma GCC diagnostic push + #pragma GCC diagnostic pop + ]])], + [lv_cv_gcc_pragma_push_works=yes], + [lv_cv_gcc_pragma_push_works=no]) + CFLAGS=$save_CFLAGS]) + if test $lv_cv_gcc_pragma_push_works = no; then + dontwarn="$dontwarn -Wmissing-prototypes" + dontwarn="$dontwarn -Wmissing-declarations" + fi + # We might fundamentally need some of these disabled forever, but # ideally we'd turn many of them on dontwarn="$dontwarn -Wfloat-equal"