[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] Make -Werror optional

Bruce Richardson bruce.richardson at intel.com
Thu Feb 12 12:25:18 CET 2015


On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 01:13:22PM +0200, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> This adds new CONFIG_RTE_ERROR_ON_WARNING config option to enable
> fail-on-warning compile behavior, defaulting to off.
> 
> Failing build on warnings is a useful developer tool but its bad
> for release tarballs which can and do get built with newer
> compilers than what was used/available during development. Compilers
> routinely add new warnings so code which built silently with cc X
> might no longer do so with X+1. This doesn't make the existing code
> any more buggier and failing the build in this case does not help
> not help improve code quality of an already released version either.

This can already be achieve by passing EXTRA_CFLAGS='-Wno-error' into the
build command. I don't like changing the default option here. Better to 
instead document how to disable the warning flags if necessary.

/Bruce



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