On 05/16/2011 07:59 PM, Dmitry Samersoff wrote: > Andrew, > > On 2011-05-16 21:12, Andrew Haley wrote: >> On 05/16/2011 05:50 PM, Dmitry Samersoff wrote: >>> Andrew, >>> >>> I guess we can add to build system something like >>> >>> ALT_COMPILER_FLAGS >>> >>> and turn on all warnings and -Werror by default. >>> >>> Having zero-warning build is good practice and it's not too costly. >> >> It'd drive you mad. gcc's -Wall is really not suitable to be enabled >> by default; it was never intended for that. > > OK. > > But in this case we have no reliable way to deal with "semi-crazy > distros" as all our attempts to disable all but some important warnings > could be blocked by theirs patches.
No: their patches don't force anything, only changing the default. The user's choice is honoured. Andrew.
