Re: silent rules and warnings

[John W. Eaton]

On 02/20/2015 07:27 PM, Mike Miller wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 17:32:33 -0500, John W. Eaton wrote:

> > Is there any objection to enabling silent rules by default?
>
> Yes please! :) I always build with V=0 for that same reason (and
> looking forward to trying the build with your latest changes).
>
> I doubt there's anything we could do about the warnings from
> flex-generated code. However, to silence those warnings specifically
> we could drop a #pragma at the top of the generated file to disable
> the old-style-cast or unused-parameter or whichever warnings trigger
> for that one file.

OK, I went ahead and enabled silent rules by default.  After thinking 
about it a bit, I don't see anything negative about doing it and it's 
easy to undo if it somehow turns out to cause trouble.

jwe