[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] mk: Only default to -Werror when building from git checkout

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Fri, 20 Feb 2015 13:15:38 +0100
Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com> wrote:

> 2015-02-12 17:18, Panu Matilainen:
> > Add RTE_DEVEL_BUILD make-variable which can be used to do things
> > differently when doing development vs building a release,
> > autodetected from source root .git presence and overridable via
> > commandline. Use it to only enable -Werror compiler flag when
> > building a git checkout:
> > 
> > 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.
> 
> Please, could you update documentation to explain RTE_DEVEL_BUILD option?
> Some users could try to build from git, so we should advise to disable RTE_DEVEL_BUILD.
> These files might be updated:
> 	http://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk/tree/doc/build-sdk-quick.txt
> 	http://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk/tree/doc/guides/linux_gsg/build_dpdk.rst
> 	http://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk/tree/doc/guides/freebsd_gsg/build_dpdk.rst
> 	http://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk/tree/doc/guides/prog_guide/dev_kit_build_system.rst
> 
> Thanks

Also do not allow any patches to into upstream that cause
new warnings with latest stable version of Gcc or Clang?
I don't want a clean project to get littered with warning graffiti.
Maybe a build bot?