On (26/09/16 23:32), Fabiano Fidêncio wrote:
On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 9:58 PM, Lukas Slebodnik
<lslebodn(a)redhat.com> wrote:
> On (26/09/16 21:47), Fabiano Fidêncio wrote:
>>On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 9:26 PM, Lukas Slebodnik <lslebodn(a)redhat.com>
wrote:
>>> On (26/09/16 12:14), Fabiano Fidêncio wrote:
>>>>Jakub,
>>>>
>>>>On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 11:35 AM, Jakub Hrozek <jhrozek(a)redhat.com>
wrote:
>>>>> On Mon, Sep 05, 2016 at 03:39:19PM +0200, Fabiano Fidêncio wrote:
>>>>>> On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 2:33 PM, Fabiano Fidêncio
<fidencio(a)redhat.com> wrote:
>>>>>> > Howdy!
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > I've suggested, a long time ago, that we could start
making use of
>>>>>> > GNULIB's compiler warnings from 'manywarnings'
module. This is
>>>>>> > basically what we have been doing in a few projects that I
(used to
>>>>>> > and still) maintain (like spice-gtk and libosinfo, for
instance).
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > For now I didn't try to fix any of the warnings that we
cannot cope
>>>>>> > with, mainly because I'm not sure whether you guys will
agree on using
>>>>>> > it or not.
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > Here is an experimental patch that works properly on Fedora
24. I
>>>>>> > still have to make some tests on RHEL-6, RHEL-7 and a few
other
>>>>>> > systems (Debian, at least) in order to make sure that we
won't break
>>>>>> > the build because of the patch.
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > If you are okay with the change, I'll start going
through the warnings
>>>>>> > that we cannot cope with and slowly start fixing them.
Although, I
>>>>>> > have the feeling that fixing some of them would cause a lot
of
>>>>>> > undesired changes, which will just bring troubles for
ourselves when
>>>>>> > backporting fixes downstream (and here I'm talking
about
>>>>>> > -Wformat-signedess, -Wsign-compare, -Wunused-parameter, ...
for
>>>>>> > instance).
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > I'm looking forward to hear some feedback!
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > Best Regards,
>>>>>> > --
>>>>>> > Fabiano Fidêncio
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ping?
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm sorry this patch totally stalled.
>>>>>
>>>>> In general I'm all for adding more checks and let a machine help
us
>>>>> write safer code. I'm not sure if adding all warnings on all
platforms
>>>>> will ever be possible, though. For example, there was a warning in
>>>>> krb5_child because an old libkrb5 release used a "char *"
parameter
>>>>> where a "const char *" was more appropriate and we said
we'd never fix
>>>>> this because a newer version fixed the API (or used a different
>>>>> function? Not sure..)
>>>>>
>>>>> But I wonder how to move this patch forward the best. Are there any
>>>>> warnings that you think are more important to enable than others?
>>>>>
>>>>> What about enabling a single warning, then running SSSD build and
>>>>> creating a ticket with the warnings (running make 1</dev/null
might be a
>>>>> good way to start..). Then we can see what needs fixing in SSSD for
each
>>>>> of the additional warnings or if we decide this is not worth our
time,
>>>>> we can either close or defer that ticket.
>>>>>
>>>>> These tickets might also be a good way for a newcomer to contribute
some
>>>>> code to SSSD!
>>>>
>>>>So, general comments here.
>>>>
>>>>We have a list of the current warnings that we cannot deal with in
>>>>src/sssd-compile-warnings.m4. From this list we can, already, have a
>>>>good idea about what is worth to fix or not.
>>>>
>>>>About the idea to try to build SSSD ... well, it can be done.
>>>>I'll take some time later on and prepare a bug for each of the
>>>>warnings that we can't cope with and them we can discuss there
whether
>>>>would make sense to fix those or not.
>>>>
>>> Here are few of my observation.
>>> The patch added 255 new configure time checks.
>>>
>>> The configure tooks 5 extra seconds in my case (everything in ram-disk).
>>> But in our CI machines it added +20 seconds in average.
>>> The configure scriot is execute 5 times in our CI-script
>>> (debug build, distcheck, intgcheck, mock, coverage build)
>>>
>>> In Summary, the patch would add unnecessary 100 seconds.
>>>
>>> I would prefer if all compile time warnings were part of AM_CFLAGS
>>> and we shoul add compile time checks only for warnings which are supported
by
>>> new compilers or are supported only by gcc or only by clang.
>>
>>I'm completely fine dropping the patch.
>>
> I am not against patch.
> I want enabling warnings But I would prefer more efficient
> version if possible.
> Reducing 255 configure time checks to 25 could be reasonable IMHO.
> The extra time overhead at configure time would be reasonable.
>
> e.g. We could enable warning -Wnull-dereference on fedora 25+ (i didn't try
> older versions of fedora) but it's not supported by gcc on el6. It cannot be
> added into AM_CFLAGS
I'd prefer to just drop the patch than do something else that wouldn't
take advantage of the manywarnings' scripts.
manywarnings script need to be
updated from time to time.
At least after adding new warnings there.
That would be the same as explicitely ading new warnings to whitelist
or to the AM_CFLAGS.
The whole point of the scripts is that you update them every now and
then _avoiding_ any kind of work apart from downloading and pushing a
file.
Any kind of thing that would bring us more work is not worth,
That's not realy
true. We would need to disable new warnings which
we decides to ignore (does not worth to fix / is not simple to fix)
IMO, mainly if the reason is 100 seconds in a process that already
takes 40+ minutes.
It takes just 30 minutes in average
and extra 100 seconds is + 5% of build time.
If you do not like different approach for enabling compiler
warnings then please at least file a ticket for fixing
warnings which were disabled in src/sssd-compile-warnings.m4
and should be possible/simple to fix them.
LS