From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dave Jones Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/12] configure.sh: show error output when something is not found Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 14:00:19 -0400 Message-ID: <20131018180019.GA26183@redhat.com> References: <1381920210-23329-1-git-send-email-mikko.rapeli@iki.fi> <1381920210-23329-4-git-send-email-mikko.rapeli@iki.fi> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1381920210-23329-4-git-send-email-mikko.rapeli@iki.fi> Sender: trinity-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" To: Mikko Rapeli Cc: trinity@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 01:43:22PM +0300, Mikko Rapeli wrote: > It can be a configuration or ortherwise important warning/error. >=20 > Signed-off-by: Mikko Rapeli =20 I don't like this one, because in most cases, these aren't important. On some machines, we even expect some of them to fail. Example, on a Fe= dora 19 system we run this test, which we expect to fail.. [*] Checking if glibc headers provide termios2.. [NO]=20 /home/davej/tmp/tmp.U0xuPLOakW.c: In function =E2=80=98main=E2=80=99: /home/davej/tmp/tmp.U0xuPLOakW.c:7:18: error: storage size of =E2=80=98= test=E2=80=99 isn=E2=80=99t known struct termios2 test; ^ Printing out an 'error' when there's nothing actually wrong seems alarm= ist. Especially when we do the right thing, and include the right header aft= erwards. Dave