[libvirt] [PATCHv2 2/6] build: silence some compiler warnings from gnulib

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Thu Jan 19 18:50:12 UTC 2012


On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 11:44:42AM -0700, Eric Blake wrote:
> Gnulib claims that there are some classes of warnings that are
> worth enabling during development, but where silencing those
> warnings causes code bloat that is not necessary in an optimized
> build.  The code bloat to silence the warnings is only enabled
> by -Dlint.  Follow the lead of coreutils in setting up -Dlint
> whenever full warnings are requested.
> 
> * m4/virt-compile-warnings.m4 (LIBVIRT_COMPILE_WARNINGS): Add
> -Dlint, and move _FORTIFY_SOURCE to config.h instead of CFLAGS.
> ---
>  m4/virt-compile-warnings.m4 |    7 ++++++-
>  1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/m4/virt-compile-warnings.m4 b/m4/virt-compile-warnings.m4
> index ba388aa..3a428c3 100644
> --- a/m4/virt-compile-warnings.m4
> +++ b/m4/virt-compile-warnings.m4
> @@ -100,8 +100,13 @@ AC_DEFUN([LIBVIRT_COMPILE_WARNINGS],[
>          gl_WARN_ADD([-Wframe-larger-than=4096])
>          dnl gl_WARN_ADD([-Wframe-larger-than=256])
> 
> +        # Silence certain warnings in gnulib, and use improved glibc headers
> +        AC_DEFINE([lint], [1],
> +          [Define to 1 if the compiler is checking for lint.])
> +        AC_DEFINE([_FORTIFY_SOURCE], [2],
> +          [enable compile-time and run-time bounds-checking, and some warnings])
> +
>          # Extra special flags
> -        gl_WARN_ADD([-Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2])
>          dnl -fstack-protector stuff passes gl_WARN_ADD with gcc
>          dnl on Mingw32, but fails when actually used
>          case $host in

ACK

Daniel
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