Re: [Libvir] PATCH: Disable automake portability warnings

["Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange redhat com>]

On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 03:38:26AM -0400, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 02:49:01AM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > 
> > The latest automake has a nasty habit of complaining about use of GNU Make
> > features such as wildcards. We use these extensively in the tests/ directory
> > since there are so many test datafiles, listing them explicitly is a waste
> > of time.
> 
>   yeah those warnings were a bit annoying.
> 
> > The attached patch passes the -Wno-portability flag to automake to make it
> > keep quiet.
> > 
> > NB, to do this required a bit of a re-working of the automake/autoconf
> > initialization stuff. Our current configure script uses AC_INIT and 
> > AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE in the so called 'legacy style'. 
> > 
> > To quote the automake  manual
> > 
> > [quote]
> >      If your `configure.ac' has:
> > 
> >           AC_INIT([src/foo.c])
> >           AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([mumble], [1.5])
> > 
> >      you can modernize it as follows:
> > 
> >           AC_INIT([mumble], [1.5])
> >           AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([src/foo.c])
> >           AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE
> > [/quote]
> > 
> > This re-arrangement is valid on any non-jurassic era automake & only impacts
> > developers running autogen.sh - not end users running the configure script
> > itself.
> > 
> > The one complication is that the version given to AC_INIT must be a literal,
> > but we currently used an environment variable. So m4 black-magic gets around
> > this problem. 
> 
>   okay +1

Ok, comitted.

Dan.
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