* Create `src/config.h` instead of passing everything on the compiler
command line.
* To reduce the magnitude of this change, add `--include src/config.h`
to CFLAGS instead of adding `#include "src/config.h"` at the top of
each source file. Not all compilers support this, but I don't think
we care about anything other than gcc and clang at this point.
* Rather than generate `src/config_opts.inc`, emit `JQ_CONFIG` directly
into `src/config.h`.
* Rather than generate `src/version.h`, define `JQ_VERSION` as an alias
for the standard `PACKAGE_VERSION`.
We had config machinery that determined which math functions are
available in libc. If a c math function was missing on the host system,
then the corresponding jq function would be removed from the source,
enabling the build to proceed anyway. The detection machinery was broken
in a subtle way, as was shown after glibc updated to 2.27, dropping the
`pow10` function. This caused compilation to fail.
The essential problem was that we detected whether a math function was
available by compiling and linking a small program evaluating that
function on constants. However, since gcc's optimization machinery has
special knowledge of some math functions (e.g. `pow10`), it can
optimize them away, even if they don't exist in the library and are not
linkable. That is, the following example compiles and links against
glibc 2.27, even though `pow10` has been removed:
```
int main () {
printf("%f", pow10(0.5));
return 0;
}
```
What?!
On the other hand, this program does not link:
```
int main () {
double f;
printf("%f", &f);
printf("%f", pow10(f));
return 0;
}
```
In the first program the call to `pow10` can be optimized away as a
constant expression. This requires GCC to know about `pow10` (which it
does!), but it does not require `pow10` to be in the library (and
actually linkable).
The solution is to use autoconf's machinery for detecting function
presence, instead of our own (buggy) machinery. This has the added
benefit of simplifying the code.
The bug was reported in issue #1659
Dag-Erling Smørgrav