Hi,

On Sun, Nov 10, 2019 at 05:03:26PM -0500, Selva Nair wrote:
> > the
> > > temptation to add -Werror in general and to Windows cross-build in
> > > particular.
> >
> > Yeah, we're not intending to.
> 
> But the patch does affect cross-compilation for Windows on linux.

That seems to have been an oversight in how to feed Travis what we want - 
I saw an update yesterday evening.

> Unless restricted to a very small cross-section (say gcc x.y + linux) this
> is going to cause a lot of grief. Note that every check run by configure
> that succeeds with warnings will become mysterious error at build time.
> There may be other unexpected failures too. -Werror is never fit for
> production in my view. There is a reason why warnings are warnings.

"gcc $current + linux" was the plan, and only do it in Travis, not do
it in configure for general consumption.

gert

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 feed honest figures into a computer, honest figures come out. Never doubted 
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Gert Doering - Munich, Germany                             g...@greenie.muc.de

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