Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3] mk: stop on warning only in developer build

[Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>]

2016-03-02 22:04, Bruce Richardson:
> On Wed, Mar 02, 2016 at 03:22:23PM +0100, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> > From: Panu Matilainen <pmatilai@redhat.com>
> > 
> > Add RTE_DEVEL_BUILD make-variable which can be used to do things
> > differently when doing development vs building a release,
> > autodetected from source root .git presence and overridable via
> > commandline. It is used it to enable -Werror compiler flag and may
> > be extended to other checks.
> > 
> > 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
> > to improve the quality of an already released version either.
> > 
> > This change the default flags which can be tuned with EXTRA_CFLAGS.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Panu Matilainen <pmatilai@redhat.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
> 
> Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>

Applied, thanks

If people have problems compiling previous releases,
please remind to use EXTRA_CFLAGS=-Wno-error