Nick Bowler writes: > Automake does not add -Werror to the default C compiler flags, and it > does not do anything with a CFLAGS_WERROR variable.
Yea, I forgot about configure.ac... it was in there. > If that is happening for a particular package, then it is because the > package authors did something to make it happen. So probably any > questions about it happening in parted should be taken up with the > parted maintainer(s)... That would be me ;) > For the most part, -Werror is a developer tool which will only cause > problems for users, so my strong recommendation is that it should > never appear in package releases, but not everybody subscribes to > that philosophy... I am tempted to switch it off... on the other hand, the previous maintainer probably had a good reason for putting it in, so I would prefer to just switch it off for BUILT_SOURCES. Any idea how to do that?
