On Dec 26, 2011, at 6:04 PM, Philip Paeps wrote: > On 2011-12-26 10:10:40 (+0000), Alexander Best <arun...@freebsd.org> wrote: >> i grep'ed through src/sys and found several places where WERROR= was set in >> order to get rid of the default -Werror setting. i tried to remove those >> WERROR= overrides from any Makefile, where doing so did not break tinderbox. >> >> in those cases, where it couldn't be completely removed, i added conditions >> to >> only set WERROR= for the particular achitecture or compiler, where tinderbox >> did not suceed without the WERROR=. > > Wouldn't it be better to set WARNS=x rather than WERROR=? WERROR= says "this > code has bugs, it breaks tinderbox" whereas WARNS=x says "this code has the > following kind of bugs which break tinderbox".
Agreed... > Possibly wrapped in an architecture-test where appropriate. Not so much... When you make architecture-specific tests, experience has shown that we don't fix bugs and they languish for a long time. Many times, these warnings are real. Sadly, we've found no way to tag the ones that aren't real yet as safe to ignore... Warner _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
