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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
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On Thu, 12 Feb 2015 16:54:44 +0200
Panu Matilainen <pmatilai@redhat.com> wrote:

> On 02/12/2015 04:38 PM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > On Thu, 12 Feb 2015 13:13:22 +0200
> > Panu Matilainen <pmatilai@redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> >> This adds new CONFIG_RTE_ERROR_ON_WARNING config option to enable
> >> fail-on-warning compile behavior, defaulting to off.
> >>
> >> Failing build on warnings is a useful developer tool but its bad
> >> for release tarballs which can and do get built with newer
> >> compilers than what was used/available during development. Compilers
> >> routinely add new warnings so code which built silently with cc X
> >> might no longer do so with X+1. This doesn't make the existing code
> >> any more buggier and failing the build in this case does not help
> >> not help improve code quality of an already released version either.

Hopefully distro's like RHEL will build with -Werror enabled
and not allow build to go through with errors.