disabling -Werror

Jeremy Huddleston jeremyhu at macports.org
Fri Aug 12 14:54:52 PDT 2011


Well for one, new compilers add new warnings, so just because -Werror works on gcc-4.2 doesn't mean it will work on gcc-4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 4.6, llvm-gcc, clang, ...

My guess is that this was specifically motivated by clang, which introduces many new warnings that projects trip over.

On Aug 12, 2011, at 2:50 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

> I see a lot of disabling -Werror going on in ports lately:
> 
> On Aug 12, 2011, at 16:49, jmr at macports.org wrote:
> 
>> Revision: 82353
>>         http://trac.macports.org/changeset/82353
>> Author:   jmr at macports.org
>> Date:     2011-08-12 14:49:46 -0700 (Fri, 12 Aug 2011)
>> Log Message:
>> -----------
>> mips-rtems-binutils: disable -Werror
> 
> What's the problem that having -Werror is causing now that it wasn't causing before?
> 
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