On 07/09/2013 03:40 AM, Erik Joelsson wrote: > I would like to see a comment explaining why the option was needed. Is > this a bug in gcc or has the checking just become better?
-Werror is not a great default. It means "all warnings are errors". The set of warnings that a compiler emits changes all the time. Users and distributions can enable additional warnings by default. Newer compiler versions may omit additional warnings. So on any compiler other than the typical compiler used, extra warnings are possible. With -Werror, this will probably fail. Lots of people discourage it [1]. We have been setting SCTP_WERROR="" to disable this -Werror on Fedora builds [2]. Cheers, Omair [1] https://blog.flameeyes.eu/2009/02/future-proof-your-code-dont-use-werror [2] http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/java-1.8.0-openjdk.git/tree/java-1.8.0-openjdk.spec#n425 -- PGP Key: 66484681 (http://pgp.mit.edu/) Fingerprint = F072 555B 0A17 3957 4E95 0056 F286 F14F 6648 4681
