On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 01:13:22PM +0200, Panu Matilainen wrote: > This adds new CONFIG_RTE_ERROR_ON_WARNING config option to enable > fail-on-warning compile behavior, defaulting to off. > > Failing build on warnings is a useful developer tool but its bad > for release tarballs which can and do get built with newer > compilers than what was used/available during development. Compilers > routinely add new warnings so code which built silently with cc X > might no longer do so with X+1. This doesn't make the existing code > any more buggier and failing the build in this case does not help > not help improve code quality of an already released version either.
This can already be achieve by passing EXTRA_CFLAGS='-Wno-error' into the build command. I don't like changing the default option here. Better to instead document how to disable the warning flags if necessary. /Bruce