[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3] mk: stop on warning only in developer build

[Bruce Richardson]

On Wed, Mar 02, 2016 at 03:22:23PM +0100, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> From: Panu Matilainen <pmatilai at redhat.com>
> 
> 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. It is used it to enable -Werror compiler flag and may
> be extended to other checks.
> 
> 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
> to improve the quality of an already released version either.
> 
> This change the default flags which can be tuned with EXTRA_CFLAGS.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Panu Matilainen <pmatilai at redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com>

Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com>