[chromium-dev] Re: do we need a gcc 4.3 buildbot?

2009-02-19 Thread Paweł Hajdan Jr .
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 17:42, Evan Martin e...@chromium.org wrote: We have a steady trickle of reports from people who run into problems building on gcc 4.3. [1] Options: 1) Provide some sort of way for people to turn off -Werror (which makes warnings into errors). Maybe make it dependent

[chromium-dev] Re: do we need a gcc 4.3 buildbot?

2009-02-19 Thread Darin Fisher
It is sometimes worth it to reduce the supported toolchain to help reduce distractions. If these warnings are beneficial, then a bot is probably a good idea. However, a red bot is bad... so we'd probably have to commit ourselves to fixing any bustage. I'm not sure what's better... how

[chromium-dev] Re: do we need a gcc 4.3 buildbot?

2009-02-19 Thread Ian Fette
At some point, we're going to have to support a newer version of GCC, no? It seems like tackling these errors as they creep up is more manageable than trying to sometime later switch to supporting a more recent release of GCC and then realizing that we've got 50,000 errors to work through... my

[chromium-dev] Re: do we need a gcc 4.3 buildbot?

2009-02-19 Thread Dan Kegel
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 9:57 AM, Ian Fette i...@chromium.org wrote: At some point, we're going to have to support a newer version of GCC, no? It seems like tackling these errors as they creep up is more manageable than trying to sometime later switch to supporting a more recent release of GCC

[chromium-dev] Re: do we need a gcc 4.3 buildbot?

2009-02-19 Thread Darin Fisher
We don't have a buildbot for VS2008. How is this different?-Darin On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 9:57 AM, Ian Fette i...@chromium.org wrote: At some point, we're going to have to support a newer version of GCC, no? It seems like tackling these errors as they creep up is more manageable than trying

[chromium-dev] Re: do we need a gcc 4.3 buildbot?

2009-02-19 Thread Darin Fisher
Good point. The GYP build description stuff that is coming will help us get over that hurdle with VS2008. Anyways, if the tax of another buildbot and toolchain configuration is worth the benefits, then of course we should set it up :) -Darin On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Dan Kegel