configure: check if compiler supports -Werror=vla.

Check if the compiler supports -Werror=vla before using it.
-Wvla was introduced with GCC 4.3 and is not present in 4.2.
Fixes the build on OpenBSD.

v2: Fix statement order, and quote $save_CFLAGS.

Bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=89433
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Gray <jsg@jsg.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Jose Fonseca <jfonseca@vmware.com>

diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index a3b0ebd6cf91e96a8ff79a3b65523c719a4aa80b..8c90b414679af72311f1076d4eefd4f2b52c9413 100644 (file)
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -278,8 +278,20 @@ if test "x$GCC" = xyes; then
     # - non-Linux/Posix OpenGL portions needs to build on MSVC 2013 (which
     #   supports most of C99)
     # - the rest has no compiler compiler restrictions
-    MSVC2013_COMPAT_CFLAGS="-Werror=vla -Werror=pointer-arith"
-    MSVC2013_COMPAT_CXXFLAGS="-Werror=vla -Werror=pointer-arith"
+    MSVC2013_COMPAT_CFLAGS="-Werror=pointer-arith"
+    MSVC2013_COMPAT_CXXFLAGS="-Werror=pointer-arith"
+
+    # Enable -Werror=vla if compiler supports it
+    save_CFLAGS="$CFLAGS"
+    AC_MSG_CHECKING([whether $CC supports -Werror=vla])
+    CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -Werror=vla"
+    AC_LINK_IFELSE([AC_LANG_PROGRAM()],
+                  [MSVC2013_COMPAT_CFLAGS="$MSVC2013_COMPAT_CFLAGS -Werror=vla";
+                   MSVC2013_COMPAT_CXXFLAGS="$MSVC2013_COMPAT_CXXFLAGS -Werror=vla";
+                   AC_MSG_RESULT([yes])],
+                   AC_MSG_RESULT([no]));
+    CFLAGS="$save_CFLAGS"
+
     MSVC2008_COMPAT_CFLAGS="$MSVC2013_COMPAT_CFLAGS -Werror=declaration-after-statement"
     MSVC2008_COMPAT_CXXFLAGS="$MSVC2013_COMPAT_CXXFLAGS"
 fi