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

[Panu Matilainen <pmatilai@redhat.com>]

On 03/03/2016 12:36 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> 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

Thanks for dusting this up, I'd pretty much forgotten the whole thing.

	- Panu -