On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 05:55:21PM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > On Thu, 12 Feb 2015 16:54:44 +0200 > Panu Matilainen <pmatilai at redhat.com> wrote: > > > On 02/12/2015 04:38 PM, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > > On Thu, 12 Feb 2015 13:13:22 +0200 > > > Panu Matilainen <pmatilai at redhat.com> wrote: > > > > > >> This adds new CONFIG_RTE_ERROR_ON_WARNING config option to enable > > >> fail-on-warning compile behavior, defaulting to off. > > >> > > >> Failing build on warnings is a useful developer tool but its bad > > >> for release tarballs which can and do get built with newer > > >> compilers than what was used/available during development. Compilers > > >> routinely add new warnings so code which built silently with cc X > > >> might no longer do so with X+1. This doesn't make the existing code > > >> any more buggier and failing the build in this case does not help > > >> not help improve code quality of an already released version either. > > Hopefully distro's like RHEL will build with -Werror enabled > and not allow build to go through with errors. > Thats usually what we do, yes. Neil
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