Removal of -pedantic and -pedantic-errors from acinclude.m4.in

Stephan Kulow coolo at kde.org
Fri Aug 15 08:23:05 BST 2003


On Friday 15 August 2003 02:14, Alex Zepeda wrote:
> I'd like to see those flags removed from acinclude.m4.in.
> 
> For whatever reason (like gcc sucking) gcc will trip over system headers
> on FreeBSD when -pedantic is used.  This has been the case for a while,
> but with the advent of gcc 3.3 these warnings needlessly became errors.
> 
> IMO there's no real reason why everyone should be forced to use -pedantic, 
> and it can always be specified with CFLAGS or CXXFLAGS if so desired.
> 
You can compile with --disable-warnings, fix your system headers or patch
your local copy. We won't remove neither of these, because otherwise people
won't see the warnings and it's left to some idiots to fix the KDE code.

Greetings, Stephan

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