Re: ./configure error: Cannot find a working 64-bit integer type

On 2017-10-10 11:01:15 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> =?UTF-8?B?0JTQuNC70Y/QvSDQn9Cw0LvQsNGD0LfQvtCy?= <dpa-postgres(at)aegee(dot)org> writes:
> > unless the patch below is applied ./configure prints:
>
> You can't run configure with -Werror; there are too many things it does
> that aren't clean according to bleeding-edge compilers. This particular
> issue is only the tip of the iceberg, and most of the problems are not
> ours but Autoconf's, so we can't fix them.

Right. It's to the point I wonder if we shouldn't error out in configure
and/or filter it out if Werror is specified. If the latter we could
still leave it enabled in the persisted cflags.

> The preferred method if you want to use -Werror is to include it in
> COPT, as mentioned near the bottom of

I think a ./configure --use-werror or something would make this less
painful.

Greetings,

Andres Freund