Brad,
I do not build using the old build anymore. This is clearly a blocker
for your work. If you want to suppress the warnings for
overrides/deprecation, then please push the change ( your patch ). We
can revisit this in the future, when it is necessary.
-Chris.
On 03/19/2013 01:29 AM, Brad Wetmore wrote:
Sorry for the delay in response, I've been pulled in yet another
direction, and this has come back up in priority.
On 3/9/2013 12:11 AM, Chris Hegarty wrote:
I agree about warning creeping problems. This is a temporary solution,
we should soon be fixing the underlying hashcode/equals
problems...but...
Your temporary solution, -overrides, is just that. It will enable the
old build to complete today, but it could fail at any point in the
future, as the code changes.
Correct. As it stands today, a recent change now requires *BOTH*
overrides/deprecation in order to get a complete MASTER build using the
old build system.
[brwetmor@flicker-vm1] 222 hg diff common/shared/Defs-java.gmk
diff --git a/make/common/shared/Defs-java.gmk
b/make/common/shared/Defs-java.gmk
--- a/make/common/shared/Defs-java.gmk
+++ b/make/common/shared/Defs-java.gmk
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@
endif
# TODO: Workaround for CR 7063027. Remove -path eventually.
-JAVAC_LINT_OPTIONS += -Xlint:-path
+JAVAC_LINT_OPTIONS += -Xlint:-path,-overrides,-deprecation
JAVACFLAGS += $(JAVAC_LINT_OPTIONS)
For example, java.net is currently warning free, in the old it compiles
with fatal warnings enabled. Lets say, in a moment of madness, I add a
dependency from java.net.Socket to say java.awt.RenderingHints.Key ( or
any class that produces warnings when compiled. I run the new build, all
is fine. Push the changes. Now someone else sync's up, but need to build
using the old build. If the new dependent class is not already compiled
before java.net.Socket gets compiled, it will be compiled implicitly.
It's warnings will cause the compile to fail, and the old build will
fail. Or much simpler, anyone could write sloppy code with warnings, the
new build will suppress them, and they won't notice. Push this code, and
the old build will fail if is explicitly, or implicitly, compiles this
code with -Werror enabled.
Exactly. Our formerly clean code now requires disabling of two Lint
options, but the new build is happy just to report the warning. The old
build crashes on the warning.
Our options for the old build system are:
1. disable the warning for overrides/deprecation, keep -Werror (my
preferred since these are minor warnings.)
2. Somehow disable -Werror on these new directories that are now
failing. (more work to figure out, but also acceptable)
3. Fix the warnings. (I don't have cycles to drive a rewrite of use of
deprecated code and/or add missing equals/hashcode that the recent javac
changes exposed.)
We
spent a lot of time cleaning up many directories, seems a shame to start
allowing non-fatal warnings to come back into previously clean code
because people aren't taking the time to fix new warnings as they are
introduced.
I personally spent several weeks over the past number of years fixing
warnings and reviewing warning cleanup webrevs from others. I took much
pride in keeping certain areas warnings free.
It is with great regret that I propose to disable fatal warnings in the
old build, but I felt this the best/safest option. I heard much
annoyance and frustration from others about hitting seemingly random
errors with the old build recently. This is the only sure way to avoid
that.
The new builds will still warn, but the
old builds will still fail for all but these override problems. Yes,
you lose the warnings in the old, but seems better than completely
shutting off erroring.
I'm ok with that, if others are. To clarify, I think you are suggesting
that we keep the old build as it, with -overrides,
and now ,-deprecation :(
and use it
periodically as a way of tracking new warnings being introduced into
areas that were warning free.
That would be a side-effect, as someone would occasionally need to
figure out what's changed.
The main issue we're hitting right now is that RE has to make several
source code changes in order to build JCE jar files without errors. I
was able to change the individual LINT options globally and reduce it
down to one change, but that's still one change that RE has to make. I
feel that RE should not be making any changes, but that ship has already
sailed and we're stuck with the results now.
That is, if the old build fails because of
a fatal warning, so be it. File a bug and fix the source code. Then the
old build will work again. This means that at any point in time the old
build cannot be guaranteed to be buildable.
Everyone seems to agree, a solution needs to be found to allow us to
keep certain areas warning free. This issue is too important, and too
much time was spent, to allow it to regress to the state it was in a few
years ago.
It's already started.
Brad
