Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 11/11] configure: Check for -Werror causing failures when compiling tests

[Peter Maydell]

On 28 July 2012 10:04, Blue Swirl <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 2:10 PM, Peter Maydell <address@hidden> wrote:
>> +    echo "ERROR: configure test passed without -Werror but failed with 
>> -Werror."
>> +    echo "This is probably a bug in the configure script. The failing 
>> command"
>> +    echo "will be at the bottom of config.log."
>> +    echo "You can run configure with --disable-werror to bypass this check."
>> +    exit 1
>
> This should be degraded to a warning

The idea is that by running configure with --enable-werror (either
explicitly or implicitly for a git build) you've asked for compile
warnings to cause build failure. We're just doing that in configure
as well as for the main build.

>, I'm getting configure breakage
> in some cases:

The thesis of the patch series is that these represent bugs to be fixed.

-- PMM