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Re: Installing a C tool chain
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Sergio Durigan Junior |
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Re: Installing a C tool chain |
Date: |
Mon, 14 Apr 2014 18:57:26 -0300 |
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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 :-).
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Sergio