Magnus Hagander wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 09:55:57AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>
>> Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> writes:
>>
>>> override CPPFLAGS += -DPLPERL_HAVE_UID_GID
>>> + # Perl on win32 contains /* within comment all over the header file,
>>> + # so disable this warning.
>>> + override CFLAGS += -Wno-comment
>>> endif
>>>
>> If you insist you can apply that in some way that makes it Windows-only.
>> I object strongly to the patch in this form, because it will mask our
>> own mistakes as well as one particular Perl build's mistakes.
>>
>
> Uh, it's already inside a win32-only block. So it'll only affect mingw.
>
> Do you know of a way to do it from inside gcc, like the #pragma that exists
> for win32 to disable specific warnings? If so we could just disable it on
> the line before we #include the perl header, and re-enable it after...
>
>
An alternative might be to provide a perl script in the tools directory
which would fix the perl header file.
cheers
andrew
