On Fri, Jan 31, 2025, at 12:22 PM, Karl Berry wrote: > Maybe Automake shouldn't use: > use warnings FATAL => 'all'; > > Changed to just "use warnings;", as Jacob also noted. > > I also took the opportunity to systematize on > use 5.006; use strict; use warnings; > all on one line to reduce real estate usage.
There was actually a concrete reason why I put FATAL => 'all' in there: I wanted it to be a hard error *during development* when new Perl warnings show up, so that they get fixed promptly rather than going neglected, trickling into releases, and spamming end users who probably don't care. Since that is clearly also causing problems for end users, I suggest we should find a way to keep the FATAL => 'all' for automake and autoconf running out of git (and in particular for our own test suites), but downgrade it to non-fatal upon 'make install'. zw
