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Re: Disable the present-but-cannot-be-compiled header warning?
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Paolo Bonzini |
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Re: Disable the present-but-cannot-be-compiled header warning? |
Date: |
Wed, 29 Oct 2008 21:28:43 +0100 |
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Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Macintosh/20080914) |
Jeff Squyres wrote:
> Is there a way to disable the present-but-cannot-be-compiled header
> warning from AC_CHECK_HEADERS in AC 2.61? I don't see any mention of
> disabling this warning in either the "Header Present But Cannot Be
> Compiled" or "Generic Header Checks" sections in the 2.61 docs.
>
> I ask because we added some AC_CHECK_HEADERS into our configure.ac
> specifically because we know that there are systems out there that have
> uncompilable headers with some compilers (e.g., some kernel header files
> don't play nicely with non-gnu compilers in 32 bit mode).
>
> All we want is a HAVE_<foo>_H macro (or not) -- our source code can
> react as appropriate (e.g., we can disable the feature that requires the
> <foo> header file). Specifically: we *don't* want users to report this
> to our mailing list every time it happens:
You should use four-arguments AC_CHECK_HEADERS. Pass
AC_INCLUDES_DEFAULT as the fourth argument if you want to filter out
headers that cannot be compiled; pass [-] if you don't want that.
This is undocumented, I admit.
Paolo