On 7/24/19 9:31 AM, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > Fredrik, > >>> Why? What is wrong with using `-Werror'? >>> >>> Or you could use `-Wa,-fatal-warnings' to limit making warnings fatal to >>> the assembly stage only if you are concerned about bad high-level language >>> code quality interfering with your goal. >> >> It appears unfeasible to fix thousands of build scripts to work like that. >> Although the numbers with actual MIPS code in them likely are very small, >> some may source macros and other stuff via various libraries. Some >> distributions, such as Gentoo, do have global CFLAGS but such mechanism are >> unreliable. > > I'd expect a sane distribution packager to prepare/patch any disobedient > software packages to accept global distribution-specific flags, as there > are often more important flags to pass which all packages need to be build > with. Getting good flags injection and being able to audit it is painful, but amazingly helpful (insert plug here for Nick's annobin/annocheck). Fixing packages to accept the standard methods of flag injection as well as addressing issues that arise is all standard procedure.
Jeff
