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Re: Installing a C tool chain


From: Sergio Durigan Junior
Subject: Re: Installing a C tool chain
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 18:57:26 -0300
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux)

On Monday, April 14 2014, Ludovic Courtès wrote:

>> Is it deprecated to use -Werror with the autotoools?
>
> In general, using -Werror is very risky, because a slight change in a
> third-party header, or in compiler warnings, can cause the project to
> fail to build.  In Guile building with -Werror is opt-in for this
> reason.

In GDB we use it by default, and it generally does a good service for us
without causing headaches, but of course, as Ludo said, this is mostly a
project's decision.  However, I wouldn't say that using -Werror is
deprecated :-).

-- 
Sergio



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