Subject: Re: bug#7669: option "foreign" after "-Wall" turns off and portability warnings.
From: Stefano Lattarini <[email-masked]>
To: Ralf Wildenhues <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2011 21:28:39 +0100
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

On Thursday 23 December 2010, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
> On Sunday 19 December 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 07:52:29PM CET:
> > > With automake >= 1.10, foreign *after* -Wall in AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE turns
> > > off portability warnings.
> > 
> > > While the current behaviour is due to various historical and implementation
> > > reasons, IMHO it is counter-intuitive and somewhat "dangerous", since
> > > programmers enabling the `foreign' option might unwittingly be prevented
> > > from seeing portability warnings -- when they think to have enabled those
> > > warnings!
> > 
> Now I've posted a patch series about this; see:
>  <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2010-12/msg00139.html>
> 
The patch series has been applied (with some churns and amendings), see:
 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2011-01/msg00039.html>
 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2011-01/msg00170.html>
and merged to master with commit `v1.11-640-gf4f5bbe'.

This should fix the bug.

Regards,
  Stefano