On 12/15/09, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> > I have also tried in the past to pass -Werror through configure, but
> > that caused too many problems.
>
> Is it your opinion that we shouldn't bother fixing this particular
> test? I was on the fence about it myself. I don't want to promise
> that configuring with -Werror will work, now or in the future; but
> making this one test safe doesn't seem too onerous.
It's better to fail with certainty, than toggle randomly some
features on/off...
Unless autoconf guys promise that their macros are meant to work with
-Werror, it seems safer to fail. Plus there are our own macros.
How about explicit switch to turn -Werror on, safely?
--
marko
