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Re: [RFA v2] Make it easy to make --disable-werror the default for both binutils and gdb
- From: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro at codesourcery dot com>
- To: Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>
- Cc: <gdb-patches at sourceware dot org>, <binutils at sourceware dot org>, Alan Modra <amodra at gmail dot com>, Hans-Peter Nilsson <hp at bitrange dot com>, Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
- Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2014 18:42:27 +0100
- Subject: Re: [RFA v2] Make it easy to make --disable-werror the default for both binutils and gdb
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On Wed, 4 Jun 2014, Joel Brobecker wrote:
> > I think Hans-Peter's suggestion was the other way round, its "&&" that is
> > portable while "-a" is likely not to work with non-GNU `test' or with
> > plain Bourne shells (where it is a builtin). This is what the autoconf
> > manual has to say about it in its portability section:
>
> Hmmm, I see. Thanks for theh clarification.
>
> I propose the following: Keep the patch I propose as is for now, as it
> does not make things worse, and also keep things consistent. And then
> follow that up with a patch which switches the operators, all of them,
> to using &&.
Well, if that's a preexisting problem (I wasn't aware of that), then
sure, I have no objections.
Maciej