Am Sonntag, 28. Oktober 2018 11:58:04 CET schrieb Scott Kostyshak 
<skost...@lyx.org>:
> > How does the compiler know, that a global function is not used?
> 
> I don't know.

It was missing declaration in a header file.

> Now compilation with -Werror is broken for GCC 7.3.0. I did not realize
> this would be such a tricky issue. It seems that fixing compilation with
> -Werror and GCC 7.3.0 is causing more pain than it is solving. Let's
> think of a reasonable policy and put it in our Development.lyx manual.
> What do you think of the following policy?

>  A developer should fix any issue that causes compilation with -Werror
>  
>   to fail on the GCC version that ships with the previous Ubuntu LTS.
>   For example, if Ubuntu 18.10 is the most recent Ubuntu release, then
>   Ubuntu 18.04 is the current LTS and Ubuntu 16.04 is the previous LTS.
>   Thus, compilation with -Werror for the GCC version that ships with
>   16.04 should be preserved.

+1.

        Kornel

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