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

[Jon TURNEY]

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.
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