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From: David Daney <ddaney@avtrex.com>
To: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
Cc: gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Set --disable-werror by default again for the release?
Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2006 18:47:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <45746D2F.1060101@avtrex.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061204182442.GB11343@adacore.com>

Joel Brobecker wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> A user reported that he failed to build GDB on x86-linux, I think
> it was RedHat FC 5. The builds are due to warnings beeing treated
> as errors.
> 
> For the last release, I turned --disable-werror by default because
> I didn't want users to get their build stuck because of warnings.
> I thought there would be less issues with that with this release,
> but maybe I'm wrong.
> 
> Because C compilers vary a lot in the warnings they emit, and newer
> compilers always find newer warnings, I am starting to think that
> we might want to produce all our released with --disable-werror by
> default. More work for me, but less hassle for the users...
> 

Possibly less work for you, as you will not have to answer all those 
questions about failed builds by telling people to configure with 
--disable-werror.

> What does everyone think?

It is a good idea.

David Daney


  reply	other threads:[~2006-12-04 18:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-12-04 18:25 Joel Brobecker
2006-12-04 18:47 ` David Daney [this message]
2006-12-04 20:32 ` Eli Zaretskii

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