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On 15.05.2012 13:29, Tony "Chainsaw" Vroon wrote: |
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> On 14/05/12 16:44, hasufell wrote: |
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>> However, I don't see references to ebuild policy (in devmanual or |
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>> howtos) how to handle Werror. |
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> As can be judged by the title of my patches on the subject, I consider |
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> -Werror to be short-sighted at best and idiotic at worst. The next GCC |
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> version, which will add *loads* of warnings to anything that compiled |
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> cleanly before, is going to kill you. |
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> Remove it from the build system. It is one of those patches that will |
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> probably live downstream until the end of time, but that is acceptable. |
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That's why IMHO the best way to fix those bugs is to make -Werror |
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optional. It the hardest path, but both upstream and downstream should |
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be satisfied. |
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Cheers, |
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Kacper |