Re: Binutils builds broken with -Werror

["Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro at linux-mips dot org>]

On Tue, 22 Mar 2005, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:

> > >  Well, since that -Werror is added by configure scripts in the first
> > > place, the most reasonable way of dealing with it is probably letting
> > > autoconf/automake do their jobs.  This flag could be substituted
> > > separately instead of along other flags in WARN_CFLAGS and then omitted
> > > selectively for generated files -- automake permits overriding default
> > > compilation flags in templates on a file by file basis.
> > 
> > Does it? I thought that only worked on a per-library basis.
> 
> No, you can override on a per-file basis using something like
>     foo_c_CFLAGS = 

 Prompted by Paul's notice I've checked automake documentation and done 
some testing and he is indeed right.  But there's a working solution 
actually suggested in automake info pages by using an auxiliary archive 
library as detailed in the "Per-Object Flags Emulation" chapter there.

  Maciej