On Fri, 3 May 2013 15:46:41 +0200 Jeroen Roovers <j...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 3 May 2013 16:06:01 +0800 > Ben de Groot <yng...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > > Personally I've always thought -Werror is a mistake in release code, > > but was accepted practice. I've almost never actively removed it from > > packages I maintain. That will change now, upon learning of this > > policy. > > Debian here and there actively fixes compiler warnings by enabling > -Werror and then checking what fails to build. I even see revision > bumps because of some of the milder compiler warnings. Maybe other > distros do this as well. It's kind of a blunt instrument to perform QA > with, but I guess it does get code cleaned up slightly better than with > no checks at all or by merely depending on runtime failures to be > reported. Oh for sure it can be a useful tool for catching stuff, but they're operating in a controlled environment, with a specific compiler version and build options. We don't have that luxury. -- gcc-porting toolchain, wxwidgets @ gentoo.org
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