From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Douglas Mencken <dougmencken@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
linux-kbuild <linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: problem with ccflags := -Werror in Makefiles when building with gcc 4.6.0
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2011 19:00:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110309180037.GA29233@merkur.ravnborg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1299691370.20104.127.camel@Joe-Laptop>
On Wed, Mar 09, 2011 at 09:22:50AM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-03-09 at 17:28 +0100, Douglas Mencken wrote:
> > When building with gcc 4.6.0 with the new type of warnings introduced,
> > -Wunused-but-set-variable, many directories with ccflags set to
> > -Werror in Makefile fail to build.
>
> After the kbuild W=<level> gets accepted,
> it might be reasonable to add another W
> level to make warnings fatal and remove
> all -Werror entries from the various Makefiles.
It does not make sense to remove -Werror.
They are there by default.
It is just plain wrong to go removing -Werror that has been there for ages.
Either we fix the warnings or we tell gcc to shut up.
Sam
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-09 18:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-09 16:28 Douglas Mencken
2011-03-09 17:22 ` Joe Perches
2011-03-09 18:00 ` Sam Ravnborg [this message]
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