[Libreoffice] --enable-werror

Stephan Bergmann sbergman at redhat.com
Tue Sep 27 02:17:57 PDT 2011


On 09/27/2011 10:33 AM, Michael Meeks wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-09-27 at 10:06 +0530, Marc-André Laverdière wrote:
>> When I tried using this flag, I ended up not being able to _build_ at
>> all. And that wasn't even due to my own mistake, only some  module I
>> know nothing at all is breaking the build.
>
> 	Sure sure, so - I think Stephan has a point - that we ought to find
> some way of enabling this for some set of people that can cope with it.
> I suspect a good heuristic would be to have an 'auto' mode for the flag
> that checks if you have git push access and if so enables -Werror, so
> that old-hands get it automatically, and newbies don't suffer.

No need to go creative here, IMO.  With a default --disable-werror, I 
*hope* it should suffice to just remind developers that they should 
--enable-werror (the same way we should remind them to --enable-dbgutil 
and to run make check).

-Stephan


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