[libvirt] [PATCH] Fix build with clang

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Thu Jul 4 10:08:50 UTC 2013


On Thu, Jul 04, 2013 at 11:48:22AM +0200, Ján Tomko wrote:
> Partially revert cdd703f's revert of c163410, as linking with clang
> with --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 still fails with:
> "argument unused during compilation".
> ---
> 
> This is technically a build-breaker fix, but I haven't pushed it yet,
> to prevent reverting a revert of a revert.
> 
>  m4/virt-compile-warnings.m4 | 7 +++++++
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/m4/virt-compile-warnings.m4 b/m4/virt-compile-warnings.m4
> index c6794b7..8731b70 100644
> --- a/m4/virt-compile-warnings.m4
> +++ b/m4/virt-compile-warnings.m4
> @@ -185,6 +185,13 @@ AC_DEFUN([LIBVIRT_COMPILE_WARNINGS],[
>         dnl gl_WARN_ADD([-fstack-protector])
>         gl_WARN_ADD([-fstack-protector-all])
>         gl_WARN_ADD([--param=ssp-buffer-size=4])
> +       dnl Even though it supports it, clang complains about
> +       dnl use of --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 unless used with
> +       dnl the -c arg. It doesn't like it when used with args
> +       dnl that just link together .o files. Unfortunately
> +       dnl we can't avoid that with automake, so we must turn
> +       dnl off the following clang specific warning
> +       gl_WARN_ADD([-Wno-unused-command-line-argument])
>         ;;
>         *-*-freebsd*)
>         dnl FreeBSD ships old gcc 4.2.1 which doesn't handle

ACK, I was just about to say this needed reverting too.
The gnulib update only fixed the detection of supported
compiler flags. It didn't (and can't) fix this flaw in
automake.


Daniel
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