[Libguestfs] daemon/ warnings

[Jim Meyering]

Daniel P. Berrange wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 11:09:01AM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>> On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 10:15:45AM +0100, Matthew Booth wrote:
>> > In general, I would like to get down to no compiler warnings. The
>> > biggest culprit in daemon, though, is rpcgen generated stuff.
>>
>> In libvirt we have some Perl scripts that attempt to rewrite the
>> output of rpcgen-generated code to remove warnings.
>>
>> It's quite a bit of hassle though, and of course depends closely on
>> the version of rpcgen (which is enforced in libvirt I think).
>>
>> Personally I'd prefer it if we could compile the rpcgen code with
>> -Wno-unused -fno-strict-alias.  However automake doesn't support
>> providing CFLAGS for just a single file.
>
> You could compile a libtool convenience library with just the rpcgen
> code, and then link that to the real library. That would let you set
> CFLAGS for that the mini rpcgen code, and the end result would be the
> same since the rpcgen mini lib would be statically linked into the
> main library during build

Good idea.