--- gforth/configure.in	2003/08/23 20:16:08	1.129
+++ gforth/configure.in	2003/08/25 14:17:44	1.132
@@ -21,12 +21,12 @@ dnl Process this file with autoconf to p
 
 dnl We use some automake macros here,
 dnl but don't use automake for creating Makefile.in
-AC_INIT([gforth],[0.6.1-20030806],[https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=addbug&group=gforth])
+AC_INIT([gforth],[0.6.2],[https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=addbug&group=gforth])
 AC_PREREQ(2.54)
 #snapshots have numbers major.minor.release-YYYYMMDD
 #note that lexicographic ordering must be heeded.
 #I.e., 0.4.1-YYYYMMDD must not exist before 0.4.1!
-UPDATED="August 6, 2003"
+UPDATED="August 25, 2003"
 AC_SUBST(UPDATED)
 AC_CONFIG_HEADERS(engine/config.h)
 
@@ -136,6 +136,11 @@ case "$host_cpu" in
 		AC_LIBOBJ(../arch/hppa/cache)
 		#LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -Xlinker -N"
 		LIBS="$LIBS -L/lib/pa1.1/"
+		#executing dynamically generated code produced segfaults on
+		#the only HPPA machine that could waste code space, so
+		#disable it by default
+		no_dynamic_default=1
+		AC_MSG_WARN(Disabling dynamic native code generation by default (speed penalty factor ~2))
 		;;
 	sparc*)
 		machine=sparc
@@ -323,6 +328,12 @@ AC_TRY_COMPILE(,,ac_nocrossjumping=yes;E
 CFLAGS="$CFLAGS_1"
 AC_MSG_RESULT($ac_nocrossjumping)
 
+# Try if GCC understands __attribute__((unused))
+AC_MSG_CHECKING([how to suppress 'unused variable' warnings])
+AC_TRY_COMPILE(,[int __attribute__((unused)) foo;], MAYBE_UNUSED='__attribute__((unused))',)
+AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED(MAYBE_UNUSED,$MAYBE_UNUSED,[attribute for possibly unused variables])
+AC_MSG_RESULT($MAYBE_UNUSED)
+
 AC_CHECK_PROG(asm_fs,asm.fs,arch/$machine/asm.fs,,$srcdir/arch/$machine)
 AC_SUBST(asm_fs)