Some configure tests broken with -Werror

[Derek Atkins]

Why don't we just put the addition of -Werror much later in the
configure process?

-derek

Christian Stimming <stimming at tuhh.de> writes:

> During checking whether gnucash easily builds I discovered that several 
> configure tests fail when -Werror is enabled! In particular, configure.in:554 
> 
> dnl check for nl_langinfo(D_FMT) which is missing on FreeBSD
> LANGINFO_D_FMT_CHECK
> 
> fails with the error message given below. Of course this is a BAD THING (tm), 
> because this will probably result in a non-translated build for no known 
> reason. AFAIK this check is currently the only one that fails only because of 
> -Werror / --enable-error-on-warning. Can we somehow get along without this 
> one? Otherwise we need to disable --enable-error-on-warning by default, 
> because the common user will only wonder why his langinfo isn't recognized.
> 
> Christian
> 
> 
> configure:12749: gcc -o conftest -g -Wall -Werror   conftest.c -lm  >&5
> cc1: warnings being treated as errors
> configure: In function `main':
> configure:12742: warning: unused variable `cs'
> configure:12752: $? = 1
> configure: failed program was:
> #line 12737 "configure"
> #include "confdefs.h"
> #include <langinfo.h>
> int
> main ()
> {
> char* cs = nl_langinfo(D_FMT);
>   ;
>   return 0;
> }
> 
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