Re: [SIMPLE PATCH] {master} Remove long-deprecated options --Werror and --Wno-error.

[Stefano Lattarini]

On Saturday 27 November 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 04:11:54PM CET:
> > It seems the automake options `--Werror' and `--Wno-error' (kept for
> > backward-compatibility only and, according to the git/CVS history,
> > deprecated since commit c037f202602bf50f4e82a7f63d4624c3256df7f7,
> > git-describe "Release-1-6-1b-35-gc037f20", dated 2002-07-06) are not
> > used anymore:
> > 
> >  
> > <http://www.google.com/codesearch?hl=en&lr=&q=%22--Werror%22+automake&sbtn=Search>
> >  
> > <http://www.google.com/codesearch?hl=en&sa=N&q=%22--Werror%22++lang:automake&ct=rr&cs_r=lang:automake>
> > 
> > The attached patch (for master) removes those options.  OK to apply?
> 
> OK, thanks.
> 
Thanks for the quick approval.  BTW, I had forgotten to add a NEWS entry,
so I squashed this in before pushing:

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 975b818..40e0ed9 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
        `--Werror' and `--Wno-error' as synonyms of respectively `-Werror'
        and `-Wno-error'.
        * tests/werror.test: Update: use `-Werror' instead of `--Werror'.
+       * NEWS: Update.
 
 2010-11-25  Stefano Lattarini  <address@hidden>
 
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 649bee9..5e24313 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -3,7 +3,8 @@ New in 1.11a:
 * Changes to automake:
 
   - automake now generates silenced rules for texinfo outputs.
-  - The deprecated option `--output-dir' has been removed.
+  - The deprecated options `--output-dir', `--Werror' and `--Wno-error'
+    have been removed.
 
 * New targets:

---

Regards,
   Stefano