Re: BUG #8271: Configure warning: sys/ucred.h: present but cannot be compiled

On 06/30/2013 09:49 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
>>> On 2013-06-30 15:17:20 +0200, Andres Freund wrote:
>>>> Andrew: Could we perhaps check for the "Report this to" bit in the
>>>> buildfarm?
>> I'm not sure what you're asking here.
> I think he's wishing that if configure prints something like
>
> configure: WARNING: sys/ucred.h: present but cannot be compiled
> configure: WARNING: sys/ucred.h:     check for missing prerequisite headers?
> configure: WARNING: sys/ucred.h: see the Autoconf documentation
> configure: WARNING: sys/ucred.h:     section "Present But Cannot Be Compiled"
> configure: WARNING: sys/ucred.h: proceeding with the preprocessor's result
> configure: WARNING: sys/ucred.h: in the future, the compiler will take precedence
> configure: WARNING:     ## ---------------------------------------- ##
> configure: WARNING:     ## Report this to pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org ##
> configure: WARNING:     ## ---------------------------------------- ##
>
> that that ought to be treated as a failure not a success.  I'm not
> entirely sure that I agree, but it's an arguable position.


Oh. Well, if that's a failure then it's up to configure to treat it as
one. The buildfarm doesn't second-guess the exit status of the various
steps, and it doesn't report warnings - if it did we'd be flooded.

cheers

andrew