* Bruno Haible (br...@clisp.org) [20120624 13:05]: > Unfortunately, a majority of the users (between 50% and 90%, I got the > impression) runs "make; make install" without "make check".
>From my impressions I'd agree that 80 to 90% onlty do make; make install. > And many of them would also ignore a #warning. > To catch the attention of the users and let them get in touch with us for > porting the code, one really has to provoke a build failure. Yes, this is definitely the case. It's the same in our open build service: many packagers will ignore warnings during build and only react to failures. Many portability bugs (aliasing, 32<->64 bit issues etc.) were only fixed after we turned the compiler warnings into build failures. Philipp
