configure/build issue with gcc 3.2.0 (PR#2176)

Jan de Leeuw deleeuw@stat.ucla.edu
Wed, 23 Oct 2002 13:42:25 -0700


Yes, there are no longer warnings in gcc-3.3

On Wednesday, Oct 23, 2002, at 12:55 US/Pacific, Roger Peng wrote:

> I noticed this on the GCC website, regarding the not-yet-released gcc
> 3.2.1:
>
> * The method of constructing the list of directories to be searched for
> header files has been revised. If a directory named by a -I option is a
> standard system include directory, the option is ignored to ensure that
> the default search order for system directories and the special  
> treatment
> of system header files are not defeated.
>
> -roger
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> On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk wrote:
>
>> This has been discussed on R-devel, and it is definitely not an R bug
>> as there are workarounds stated in the R-admin manual.
>>
>> Setting CPPFLAGS= (nothing) does avoid this except in the gnome  
>> module. It
>> was intended to put that explicitly in the R-admin manual for 1.6.0,  
>> but
>> it was not done in time (it is now there for R-patched).
>>
>> We are told that this is fixed in the alphas of gcc 3.3.  Once it is  
>> clear
>> exactly which versions of gcc are affected we may add a workaround in  
>> the
>> configure script.
>>
>> On Wed, 16 Oct 2002 rjvbertin@hotmail.com wrote:
>>
>>> There is an incompatibility between R's configure/build process, and  
>>> gcc 3.2.0 (and maybe earlier).
>>> Gcc 3.2.0 includes -I/usr/local/include by default, on my system  
>>> (default configuration), and cpp0
>>> issues a warning when this flag is issued additionally by the user  
>>> (= R's configure). This warning
>>> ends up in the dependency sections of the Makefile that are  
>>> generated "automagically". The 1st
>>> occurrence is line 105 of src/appl/Makefile .
>>>
>>> The only way around it that I found, other than removing all  
>>> -I/usr/local/include in all Makefiles is to manually add
>>> -Wp,-w, a gcc/cpp argument that suppresses all cpp warnings. It also  
>>> has the effect of not aborting
>>> a compilation as soon as a specified header file is *not* found :(
>>> If you decide to leave -I/usr/local/include and add -Wp,-w for gcc 3  
>>> compilers, I would suggest
>>> *not* adding -Wp,-w if -fsyntax-only is also given, to not interfere  
>>> with requested syntax-checking.
>>> (that would probably require to call the compiler from a wrapper  
>>> script, something I already do.)
>>>
>>> Rene Bertin
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