Re: [PATCH] Flymake support for C/C++

[Sami Kerola]

On 14 October 2017 at 08:10, Reuben Thomas <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 14 October 2017 at 02:34, Richard Stallman <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
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>>
>>   > *: Sadly, GNU Hello no longer works since it uses a backquoted shell
>>   >   expression that the current implementation can't intercept (my old
>>   >   use-emacs-as-a-shell-parser )
>>
>> It is important to fix this, since it is not good for Flymake to fail
>> on the GNU example of proper packaging.
>>
>> It could be fixed in Flymake or fixed in GNU Hello.
>> Which one is better?
>
>
> These days, it seems much better to use Flycheck than Flymake (that's
> certainly what I do). See https://github.com/flycheck/flycheck
>
> It would be a pity for Flymake to become yet another part of Emacs that
> developers spend time updating and users largely ignore; better to spin it
> off into ELPA, and if people still want to work on it there, fine.
> Meanwhile, why not use Flycheck by default (in the same way as we've
> "in-sourced" Org and other packages)?

I tried to reproduce following comple output[1] without luck[2].

gcc -DLOCALEDIR=\"/usr/local/share/locale\" -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I.
-I. -I.. -I../intl -I../intl    -g -O2 -c `test -f 'hello.c' || echo
'./'`hello.c

Perhaps backticks are coming from autotools. Mine are:

autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.69
automake (GNU automake) 1.15.1

[1] as mentioned in earlier in thread:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2017-10/msg00432.html

[2] tested using hello-2.10 distribution package, and latest upstream
version 4d0301f23b1666cf466a0ac281a0ea008abe70bb.

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Sami Kerola
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