On Wed, Jan 04, 2012 at 01:44:07PM -0500, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 9:23 PM, Tom Lane <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Robert Haas <[email protected]> writes:
> >> On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 7:39 PM, Peter Geoghegan <[email protected]>
> >> wrote:
> >>> Yes, I know that these only appeared in GCC 4.6+ and as such are a
> >>> relatively recent phenomenon, but there has been some effort to
> >>> eliminate them, and if I could get a non-hacked -Werror build I'd feel
> >>> happy enough about excluding them as already outlined.
> >
> >> I just do this:
> >> echo COPT=-Werror > src/Makefile.custom
> >> ...which seems to work reasonably well.
> >
> > I see no point in -Werror whatsoever. If you aren't examining the make
> > output for warnings, you're not following proper development practice
> > IMO.
>
> I find -Werror to be a convenient way to examine the output for
> warnings. Otherwise they scroll off the screen. Yeah, I could save
> the output to a file and grep it afterwards, but that seems less
> convenient.
Our src/tools/pgtest does this:
http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=blob;f=src/tools/pgtest;hb=HEAD
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