While this is nice while developing, it may cause various problems with distributed tarballs. A new automake version could add a warning, causing errors for distributions and users, who might need to patch configure.ac and thus run autoreconf. For example, we hit an error where a third party package (gettext) uses functionality (AM_PROG_MKDIR_P) which is deprecated in newer automake versions(1.12.1), causing the powertop build to fail. Since the problem lies elsewhere, it is stupid to fail for this while building powertop --- configure.ac | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac index 4da4eea..ff4cdea 100644 --- a/configure.ac +++ b/configure.ac @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ AC_PREREQ([2.68]) AC_INIT([powertop], [2.0], [powertop(a)lists.01.org]) -AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([-Wall -Werror foreign ]) +AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([-Wall foreign ]) AC_LANG([C++]) AC_CONFIG_FILES([Makefile src/Makefile pevent/Makefile po/Makefile.in doc/Makefile]) AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([src/main.cpp])