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

Adam Jackson ajax at redhat.com
Tue Aug 9 17:53:54 UTC 2011


On Tue, 2011-08-09 at 19:19 +0200, Jan Kratochvil wrote:
> On Tue, 09 Aug 2011 19:14:27 +0200, Adam Jackson wrote:
> > If you're volunteering to fix and/or paper over all the spurious
> > warnings gcc and glibc introduce with every phase of the moon, then
> > sure.
> 
> Yes, I do it for my component, GDB has -Werror default in development phases
> upstream.  It cleans up the code, it finds various minor bugs etc.

I didn't say "for your component".

> > Otherwise -Werror would essentially mean never shipping anything
> > ever again.
> 
> So the maintainers either care about the warnings - and then they should use
> -Werror - or they do not care about the warnings - and then it does not matter
> regarding warning messages which and how many of them can be found on the Koji
> server in the log files.  Please decide.

I wasn't arguing for or against finding warnings.  I was commenting on
the ability to see build failures.

Admittedly, you were initially responding to Colin, not myself.

- ajax
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