[PATCH macros] Cache the results of checking compiler flag support in XORG_TESTSET_CFLAG

[Gaetan Nadon]

On 12-01-17 12:14 PM, Jon TURNEY wrote:
> On 12/01/2012 21:50, Gaetan Nadon wrote:
>> On 12-01-12 11:49 AM, Jon TURNEY wrote:
>>> Since checking all those warning flags takes an amount of time I find irritating,
>>> here is an attempt at caching the results of checking compiler warning flag support
>>>
>>> A couple of aspects which need definitely need review or testing:
>>>
>>> * I've tried to get things right when not the first flag in the list of alternates is
>>> supported, but this really needs testing with a compiler other than gcc
>> I used an unrecognised flag such as "-i" and moved it around in the list.
>>> * The cache variable naming policy is a bit opaque me, so the names used may need corecting
>>>
>>> * I've tried to be careful, but who knows what portability sins I have committed :-)
>> I did not see anything suspicious, everything is autoconf blessed.
> Thanks for the review.
>
>>> +dnl Some hackery here since AC_CACHE_VAL can't handle a non-literal varname and
>>> +dnl flag may contains spaces as it may contain multiple flags, but a cacheid can't
>>>  		AC_MSG_CHECKING([if $CC supports ]flag[])
>>> -		AC_LINK_IFELSE([AC_LANG_PROGRAM([int i;])],
>>> -		                  [supported=yes], [supported=no])
>>> -		AC_MSG_RESULT([$supported])
>>> +		cacheid=`AS_ECHO_N([xorg_cv_cc_flag_]flag[]) | $SED 's/ /_/'`
>> Can you have a look at:
>> http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/autoconf.html#index-AS_005fTR_005fSH-1519
>>
>>           # This outputs "Have it!".
>>           header="sys/some file.h"
>>           eval AS_TR_SH([HAVE_$header])=yes
>>           if test "x$HAVE_sys_some_file_h" = xyes; then echo "Have it!"; fi
>>
>> This example seem to indicate you would not need to replace spaces with
>> underscore yourself.
> You are correct, AS_TR_SH applies a suitable transformation that the result is
> a valid shell variable name, so I don't need to use sed at all here.
>
> Updated patch with that removed attached.
>
>> I have one question regarding how you use the cache file. You are aware
>> that some of the Automake variables we create in the various xorg
>> modules do not have a unique name across packages. For example. in the
>> driver section, PKG_CHECK MODULES(XORG, ...) is very common. The
>> variable pkg_cv_XORG_LIBS does not have the same value for all drivers.
>> Using a cache file will almost always return the wrong value. How do you
>> work around this issue?
> At the moment, I am ignoring this issue, and just use a single cache file when
> jhbuilding the whole Xorg stack.  This is probably the wrong thing to do. :-)
>
> I don't have a specific issue with the pkg_cv_XORG_LIBS variable for drivers,
> as I generally don't build the drivers, not being of much use on my platform
> of interest.
>
> Also, looking at pkg.m4, if I am reading it correctly, it seems to me that
> pkg_cv_ variables aren't used like normal cache variables: pkg-config is run
> (once) on each configure run.  This might explain why I don't have more
> problems with my sloppy approach.

Reviewed-by: Gaetan Nadon <memsize at videotron.ca>