On Monday, April 14 2014, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> Is it deprecated to use -Werror with the autotoools? > > In general, using -Werror is very risky, because a slight change in a > third-party header, or in compiler warnings, can cause the project to > fail to build. In Guile building with -Werror is opt-in for this > reason.
In GDB we use it by default, and it generally does a good service for us without causing headaches, but of course, as Ludo said, this is mostly a project's decision. However, I wouldn't say that using -Werror is deprecated :-). -- Sergio