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From: Kristian Fiskerstrand <k_f@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o, "Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn" <chithanh@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Changing policy about -Werror
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2018 21:22:38
Message-Id: edf44f5b-fc0f-dc73-80af-1dd4d3a89988@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Changing policy about -Werror by "Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn"
1 On 9/10/18 11:19 PM, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote:
2 > It is indeed an insurmountable task to write code that is warning-free
3 > from the beginning across architectures, compiler versions, etc. But
4 > that is not the goal anyway. It is examining the situation and taking
5 > appropriate action, and then applying a change to no longer cause that
6 > particular warning (or make it non-fatal if the warning is bogus/harmless).
7
8 sure, but for upstreams that make this an explicit goal, do we really
9 want to apply additional downstream pataches with the additional
10 complexity that carries for build system (autotools re-generation that
11 might make it unsupported upstream etc) ?
12
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Changing policy about -Werror Kristian Fiskerstrand <k_f@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] Changing policy about -Werror "Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn" <chithanh@g.o>