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Subject: RE: rebasing new packages?!
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It's pretty straight forward, just read the 'checking for runtime
features' bit of the autoconf manual, and set CXXFLAGS to -Winline
-Werror before the test, and restore the variable afterwards.

Rob

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jason Tishler [mailto:jason AT tishler DOT net] 
> Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2002 11:13 AM
> To: Robert Collins
> Cc: cygwin-apps AT cygwin DOT com
> Subject: Re: rebasing new packages?!
> 
> 
> Rob,
> On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 08:16:25AM +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
> > I guess it'll have to live on the setup home page. Can I 
> also get you 
> > to write a configure.in test script to detect it? (So that 
> new users 
> > do
> > -not- offer to patch Makefile.am to remove the -Werror.
> 
> OK, I'll give it a whirl but I have never had to implement an 
> autoconf test like this yet.  I guess that there has to be a 
> first time sooner or later...
> 
> Jason
>