[FFmpeg-devel] warning: unknown warning option '-Wno-bool-operation'; did you mean '-Wno-bool-conversion'? [-Wunknown-warning-option]

[Ronald S. Bultje]

Hi,

On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 10:04 PM, Helmut K. C. Tessarek <
tessarek at evermeet.cx> wrote:

> On 2017-10-11 21:59, James Almer wrote:
> > Clang seems to warn instead of fail when an option does not exist, so
> > configure things it exists.
> >
> > A solution could be to somehow make clang fail instead of warn (-Werror
> > only during the test maybe?). Or just revert this again and ignore the
> > two or so cases where gcc thinks it should warn about boolean operations.
>
> This sounds pretty much the same as Mark Thompson suggested in another
> thread:
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> The test in configure passes, I think because:
>
> <https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Warning-Options.html>:
> """
> When an unrecognized warning option is requested (e.g.,
> -Wunknown-warning), GCC emits a diagnostic stating that the option is
> not recognized. However, if the -Wno- form is used, the behavior is
> slightly different: no diagnostic is produced for -Wno-unknown-warning
> unless other diagnostics are being produced. This allows the use of new
> -Wno- options with old compilers, but if something goes wrong, the
> compiler warns that an unrecognized option is present.
> """
>
> Not sure exactly how to fix that.  Could we replace the check with
> something like "-Werror=bool-operation", which does error out when it
> doesn't find the warning option, and only add the "-Wno-bool-operation"
> if that works?
>

>From IRC yesterday (gcc=clang here):

bash-4.4$ gcc /dev/null -Wno-bool-operation -c -o /tmp/x.o && echo success
clang: warning: /dev/null: 'linker' input unused
[-Wunused-command-line-argument]
clang: warning: argument unused during compilation: '-Wno-bool-operation'
[-Wunused-command-line-argument]
success
bash-4.4$ gcc -Wno-bool-operation /tmp/x.c -c -o /tmp/x.o
-Werror=unused-command-line-argument && echo success
warning: unknown warning option '-Wno-bool-operation'; did you mean
'-Wno-bool-conversion'? [-Wunknown-warning-option]
1 warning generated.
successbash-4.4$ gcc -Wno-bool-operation /tmp/x.c -c -o /tmp/x.o
-Werror=unused-command-line-argument -Werror=unknown-warning-option && echo
success
error: unknown warning option '-Wno-bool-operation'; did you mean
'-Wno-bool-conversion'? [-Werror,-Wunknown-warning-option]

That last one should allow this to work.

Ronald