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

Helmut K. C. Tessarek tessarek at evermeet.cx
Thu Oct 12 05:04:11 EEST 2017


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:

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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?
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