Setting -Werror in CFLAGS passed to configure is not ideal as that affects
all the checks performed by the script.
This caused an issue with newer versions of Autoconf and the AC_PROG_LEX
macro that insisted on finding a lexer library. But due to warnings from
the generated test lexer (misleading indentation) that got turned into
errors no library was found (none would have been necessary), so LEX was
not set and no lexers were built.
With this option enabled, we add -Werror to CFLAGS after all tests ran.
It also enables additional warnings via -Wextra.
The option is auto-enabled when building from the repository.
The variable GIT_VERSION is always defined, either obtained from Git or
a file that is embedded in tarballs when they are built. Optionally,
that version is declared as VERSION in config.h so it will be used e.g. in
the daemons when they print the version number.
There is a check that should catch missing tags (i.e. if the version number
in AC_INIT() isn't a prefix of the version obtained via Git).
