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

[Thomas Monjalon]

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