On Sun, Oct 28, 2018 at 07:31:07PM +0100, Kornel Benko wrote: > 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.
OK I'll send the proposal to the list. My guess is that no one will care about this topic, but perhaps I'm wrong. Scott
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