The warnings were produced because the command-line flag redefined the
value of _FORTIFY_SOURCE coming from the specs on some distributions,
including Gentoo. So, undefine this macro before defining it.
---
v2: Documented the rationale behind the added flags, including compiler
warnngs.
Also, after looking at the generated configure script, I removed the quotes
around -DFASTPATH.
configure.ac | 22 ++++++++++++++--------
1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index e75973f..ed56ea4 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -177,14 +177,20 @@ AX_APPEND_COMPILE_FLAGS(
[-Wall -W -Wextra -pipe -Wno-long-long -Wno-overlength-strings -Wunsafe-loop-optimizations -Wundef -Wformat=2 -Wlogical-op -Wsign-compare -Wformat-security -Wmissing-include-dirs -Wformat-nonliteral -Wold-style-definition -Wpointer-arith -Winit-self -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wfloat-equal -Wmissing-prototypes -Wstrict-prototypes -Wredundant-decls -Wmissing-declarations -Wmissing-noreturn -Wshadow -Wendif-labels -Wcast-align -Wstrict-aliasing -Wwrite-strings -Wno-unused-parameter -ffast-math -fno-common -fdiagnostics-show-option],
[], [-pedantic -Werror])
-# Only enable fastpath asserts when doing a debug build, e.g. from bootstrap.sh.
-AS_CASE([" $CFLAGS "], [*" -O0 "*], [], [AX_APPEND_FLAG(["-DFASTPATH"], [CPPFLAGS])])
-
-# Only set _FORTIFY_SOURCE when optimizations are enabled. If optimizations
-# are disabled, _FORTIFY_SOURCE doesn't do anything, and causes tons of
-# warnings during compiling on some distributions (at least Fedora).
-AS_CASE([" $CFLAGS "], [*" -O0 "*], [], [AX_APPEND_FLAG(["-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2"], [CPPFLAGS])])
-
+AS_CASE([" $CFLAGS "], [*" -O0 "*], [], [
+ # Don't append the flag if it already exists.
+ # Only enable fastpath asserts when doing a debug build, e.g. from bootstrap.sh.
+ AX_APPEND_FLAG([-DFASTPATH], [CPPFLAGS])
+
+ # Cannot use AX_APPEND_FLAG here, as it assumes no space inside the added flags.
+ # Cannot append flags with AX_APPEND_FLAG one by one, as this would destroy all fortifications
+ # if CPPFLAGS already contain -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2.
+
+ # Warnings to be aware of that appear with -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 but without -U_FORTIFY_SOURCE:
+ # On Fedora 20 with -O0: #warning _FORTIFY_SOURCE requires compiling with optimization (-O) [-Wcpp]
+ # On Gentoo with -O2: "_FORTIFY_SOURCE" redefined [enabled by default]
+ AS_VAR_APPEND([CPPFLAGS],[" -U_FORTIFY_SOURCE -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2"])
+])
#### Linker flags ####
--
1.9.2
