On Mon, 29 Aug 2011, Peter O'Gorman wrote:
This turns off warnings for --silent (and turns them on again for --verbose).
But I am not sure that --silent was meant to imply "no warnings", rather it
turns off the verbose compile/link messages.
Would a new --no-warnings option be more appropriate?
I agree that a new option would be more appropriate. However, it
should be a user-provided configuration option (when building the
package) and not something which will be hard-coded into Makefiles by
developers. The --silent option should have been handled the same so
that the person building the software can easily decide if the build
should be silent.
If developers start producing packages which have 'silent' and
'no-warnings' irreversably baked into the Makefiles, then it will be
very difficult to diagnose the case that the sofware does not build
or work due to a tool, build options, or platform issue.
Bob
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Bob Friesenhahn
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