[Groff] Re: Bug#69129: groff: neither -Wall nor -Ww turn off negative indent warnings [UPSTREAM]

[Colin Watson]

[This seems not to have made it to the list the first time I sent it -
at least, it isn't showing up in the archives. Given the mail chaos I've
had, that was probably my fault.]

On Tue, 15 Aug 2000 at 17:35:48 +0200, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> Branden Robinson wrote:
> > .warn 0
> >
> > in the source file succeeds in shutting up warnings about negative
> > indentations, but neither the -Wall nor -Ww command line options do.
> 
> I need a real example to check this.  According to the code this   
> should not happen since all warnings about negative indentations are
> flagged as `WARN_RANGE' which is covered by both -Wall and -Ww.

It turns out it's because m.tmac and s.tmac enable warnings, which of
course supersedes -Wall and -Ww on the command line. Should macro
packages be doing this? Or should -W on the command line perhaps take
precedence over later uses of .warn?

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Colin Watson                                  address@hidden