[libvirt] [PATCH] Fix GCC hard-coding in python/

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 11:15:30AM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 09:57:23AM +0100, Jim Meyering wrote:
> > john.levon at sun.com wrote:
> > > Fix GCC hard-coding in python/
> > ...
> > > diff --git a/acinclude.m4 b/acinclude.m4
> > > --- a/acinclude.m4
> > > +++ b/acinclude.m4
> > > @@ -75,6 +75,11 @@ AC_DEFUN([LIBVIRT_COMPILE_WARNINGS],[
> > >
> > >      WARN_CFLAGS="$COMPILER_FLAGS $complCFLAGS"
> > >      AC_SUBST(WARN_CFLAGS)
> > > +
> > > +    COMPILER_FLAGS=
> > > +    gl_COMPILER_FLAGS(-Wno-redundant-decls)
> > > +    NO_RDECLS_CFLAGS=$COMPILER_FLAGS
> > > +    AC_SUBST(NO_RDECLS_CFLAGS)
> > >  ])
> > >
> > > diff --git a/python/Makefile.am b/python/Makefile.am
> > > --- a/python/Makefile.am
> > > +++ b/python/Makefile.am
> > > @@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ python_LTLIBRARIES = libvirtmod.la
> > >
> > >  libvirtmod_la_SOURCES = libvir.c types.c libvirt-py.c libvirt-py.h
> > >  # Python header files contain a redundant decl, hence:
> > > -libvirtmod_la_CFLAGS = -Wno-redundant-decls
> > > +libvirtmod_la_CFLAGS = @NO_RDECLS_CFLAGS@
> > 
> > That -Wno-redundant-decls option is no longer necessary, at least
> > on rawhide.  When I remove it, compiling with "make -C python
> > CFLAGS='-Wredundant-decls -Werror'" still succeeds.
> 
> What about with older RHEL-5 python though ? Python 2.4 had rather a large
> number of flaws in its public header file that have caused plenty of
> compile warning problems in past.

I've verified this flag is still needed on RHEL-5, so will go for John's
patch

Daniel
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