Didier Raboud <o...@debian.org> writes: > Wouter Verhelst wrote: > >> I was working on nbd-server upstream, and so had ran ./configure with >> CFLAGS='-Wall -Werror', which I consider good practice when writing C >> code. >> >> What I didn't notice immediately was that gcc was emitting some >> warnings, but that the -Werror option was not honored for those >> warnings. Investigating turned up #615157 (Cc'd): the gcc maintainers >> have decided to disable -Werror for some new warnings, because otherwise >> it would cause FTBFS bugs in packages that have -Werror set in their >> debian/rules file. > > Wouldn't it be possible to use the dpkg-buildflags framework for this? As > far as I understand it, this framework sets the gcc options used to build > Debian packages. Using it would allow to have an upstream-like gcc for the > whole system, and Debian-specific options when building packages. > > (It would also have the side-effect of making sure all packages actually > work fine when dpkg-buildflags sets something different as usually > expected.) > > Opinions ?
You would want to only have -Werror for your own packages, not for every package you compile. dpkg-buildflags doesn't know what package you are trying to build when it gets asked for the right flags to use. MfG Goswin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87aaehuwcu.fsf@frosties.localnet