On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 7:10 PM, Juan Lang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Are you sure about that? When I configure with -Wall -Werror, >> I can't even configure properly; one gets the errors >> >> configure: libxrandr development files not found, XRandr won't be supported. >> configure: libxinerama development files not found, multi-monitor >> setups won't be supported. >> configure: WARNING: Old Mesa headers detected. Consider upgrading your >> Mesa libraries. >> OpenGL and Direct3D won't be supported. > > This is precisely part of the problem with -Werror. You've now caused > some configure checks to fail that, presumably, were passing before. > Are they worth making warning-free? Some of the warnings may be in > headers we don't control. What do we do then? >
I think the important thing for Dan's case is that he also used -Wall, which we should never turn on by default, especially not with -Werror. Correct me if I've made an incorrect assumption. -- James Hawkins