[PATCH] macros: Globally add --disable-silent-rules to configure

[Matthew Garrett]

On Tue, Aug 09, 2011 at 06:56:21PM +0200, Jan Kratochvil wrote:
> On Tue, 09 Aug 2011 16:44:31 +0200, Colin Walters wrote:
> > the goal being that they see warnings more easily.
> 
> You should make -Werror default instead, by compiling packages without -Werror
> various bugs creep in which would be much easier fixed before the compilation.

Never, ever ship software with -Werror enabled. It's a development-only 
option. You have no idea what gcc will decide is a warning in future, so 
it's effectively a "Please break my build in six months" toggle.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org