Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] cmake giving options the compiler does not understand

[Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss.ws@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 01/02/2014 07:42 PM, Joerg Mayer wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 02, 2014 at 04:30:14PM -0800, Guy Harris wrote:
> > Are we really encountering a case where the C compiler accepts -Wshorten-64-to-32 but the C++ compiler doesn't, or *vice versa*?  Or are we encountering a case where *neither* compiler accepts it, but CMake isn't detecting that?

Neither compiler supports that option.

It's highly unlikely that this directory was previously used with a 
compiler that *did* support it (unless Fedora pushed out a compiler 
downgrade) but I suppose it is possible.

> I don't know. On my (32-bit) system, both compilers correctly report that
> it is not supported. I'd need to see the cmake output on a system that has
> this problem.

Unfortunately the evidence is all gone now.  Maybe if I hit the problem 
again in the future...