URL: <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?63686>
Summary: implement a flag to promote make warnings to fatal errors Project: make Submitter: boyski Submitted: Fri 20 Jan 2023 09:12:57 PM UTC Severity: 3 - Normal Item Group: Enhancement Status: None Privacy: Public Assigned to: None Open/Closed: Open Discussion Lock: Any Component Version: SCM Operating System: None Fixed Release: None Triage Status: None _______________________________________________________ Follow-up Comments: ------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri 20 Jan 2023 09:12:57 PM UTC By: David Boyce <boyski> GCC has a -Werror option causing warnings to be promoted to fatal errors which I (and my organization) find very useful. As a matter of policy we always build with -Werror on and while this, obviously, is painful to start with it leads to a much calmer working environment once cruising altitude is reached. We find new issues much quicker since new warnings aren't interspersed with hundreds of pre-existing ones. I've been observing some GNU make warnings (introduced by a co-worker :-) in a local build here for a while now: warning: overriding recipe for target ... warning: ignoring old recipe for target ... Which made me think "wouldn't it be nice if there was a -Werror equivalent for make?". _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?63686> _______________________________________________ Message sent via Savannah https://savannah.gnu.org/