Bug#886004: elfutils should build without -Werror

2018-01-22 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 06:50:27AM +0100, Helmut Grohne wrote: > > This bug is still open. And now it carries more weight for actually > removing -Werror. Does anyone object to me NMUing the change? Feel free to NMU it. In my experience it's sometimes hard to actually get all gcc versions not

Bug#886004: elfutils should build without -Werror

2018-01-22 Thread Helmut Grohne
On Wed, Jan 03, 2018 at 06:52:55AM +0100, Helmut Grohne wrote: > On Wed, Jan 03, 2018 at 12:42:44AM +0100, Mark Wielaard wrote: > > In general, if it is a new gcc release, we will likely have seen the > > issue before upstream or in another distro and can providing a patch to > > include in the

Bug#886004: elfutils should build without -Werror

2018-01-02 Thread Helmut Grohne
On Wed, Jan 03, 2018 at 12:42:44AM +0100, Mark Wielaard wrote: > In general, if it is a new gcc release, we will likely have seen the > issue before upstream or in another distro and can providing a patch to > include in the debian package can normally be done in 3 days. This > is what we do with

Bug#886004: elfutils should build without -Werror

2018-01-02 Thread Mark Wielaard
On Tue, Jan 02, 2018 at 01:49:06PM +0100, Helmut Grohne wrote: > On Tue, Jan 02, 2018 at 10:57:44AM +0100, Mark Wielaard wrote: > > Could you please file a bug for that. I am not aware of any such issue. > > So would like to fix it, and would if I knew about it. Thanks. > > No. Matthias Klose

Bug#886004: elfutils should build without -Werror

2018-01-02 Thread Helmut Grohne
Control: tags -1 - upstream On Tue, Jan 02, 2018 at 10:57:44AM +0100, Mark Wielaard wrote: > Could you please file a bug for that. I am not aware of any such issue. > So would like to fix it, and would if I knew about it. Thanks. No. Matthias Klose will file them, when he considers gcc-8 ready

Bug#886004: elfutils should build without -Werror

2018-01-02 Thread Mark Wielaard
BTW. I see two GCC8 related fixes in elfutils git since the last release: commit 268a27211b152d876185ff95255e5025c43b9c13 Author: Mark Wielaard Date:   Mon Nov 20 14:11:02 2017 +0100 libdwfl: Don't dereference possibly unaligned auxv entry pointer from core. The

Bug#886004: elfutils should build without -Werror

2018-01-02 Thread Mark Wielaard
Hi Helmut, On Tue, 2018-01-02 at 09:42 +0100, Helmut Grohne wrote: > For example, it FTBFS with gcc-8 atm. Could you please file a bug for that. I am not aware of any such issue. So would like to fix it, and would if I knew about it. Thanks. > Even if that checking was happening in > practise,

Bug#886004: elfutils should build without -Werror

2018-01-02 Thread Helmut Grohne
On Mon, Jan 01, 2018 at 06:31:37PM +0100, Mark Wielaard wrote: > In general we try to catch any compiler errors and build with pre-release > gcc versions. Please do report any you catch upstream. Thanks. History shows that this trying is not working in practise. For example, it FTBFS with gcc-8

Bug#886004: elfutils should build without -Werror

2018-01-01 Thread Mark Wielaard
On Mon, Jan 01, 2018 at 01:53:00PM +0100, Helmut Grohne wrote: > elfutils upstream enables -Werror for compilation by default. This has > caused FTBFS with gcc-6 and gcc-7 and is going to cause FTBFS with gcc-8 > soon. Using -Werror is good if those issues are fixed proactively. > However that is

Bug#886004: elfutils should build without -Werror

2018-01-01 Thread Helmut Grohne
Source: elfutils Version: 0.170-0.1 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch upstream User: helm...@debian.org Usertags: rebootstrap elfutils upstream enables -Werror for compilation by default. This has caused FTBFS with gcc-6 and gcc-7 and is going to cause FTBFS with gcc-8 soon. Using -Werror is good if