Re: [PATCH] sim: use -Werror when probing for supported warning flags

[Simon Marchi via Gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>]

On 2021-04-21 5:13 p.m., John Baldwin wrote:
> On 4/21/21 2:04 PM, Simon Marchi via Gdb-patches wrote:
>> On 2021-04-21 4:44 p.m., Mike Frysinger wrote:
>>> On 21 Apr 2021 14:51, Simon Marchi via Gdb-patches wrote:
>>>> When building with clang, we get:
>>>>
>>>>      error: unknown warning option '-Wmissing-parameter-type' [-Werror,-Wunknown-warning-option]
>>>>
>>>> This is because clang only warns by default when encountering an unknown
>>>> warning option, and the probe for supported warning flags is done
>>>> without -Werror.  All flags are therefore accepted by configure, but
>>>> then it breaks when actually compiling a source file with -Werror.
>>>>
>>>> This is equivalent to this commit in gdb:
>>>>
>>>>      3e019bdc20eb81b91ab5bc774386201b874c0bac
>>>>      gdb: Use -Werror when checking for (un)supported warning flags
>>>>
>>>> We then see some other compilation errors when building with clang and
>>>> -Werror, they can be dealt with later.
>>>>
>>>> sim/ChangeLog:
>>>>
>>>>     * m4/sim_ac_option_warnings.m4 (SIM_AC_OPTION_WARNINGS):
>>>>     Use -Werror when probing for supported warning flags.
>>>
>>> so this one file/line looks fine
>>>
>>> but the regen looks a little out of whack.  when i apply your patch and
>>> regenerate everything, i don't have any aclocal.m4 changes.  why do you ?
>>> are you running the tools manually and with a diff -I order ?
>>> -mike
>>>
>>
>> I run `autoreconf -vf` inside sim/, using binaries compiled from
>> upstream (not my distro's versions).
> 
> Do you have LANG set?  Maybe that affects the collating order used for
> sorting?
> 

I do (en_CA.UTF-8).  But I tried this, didn't change anything:

  LC_ALL=C LANG=C autoreconf -vf

Simon