Re: [PATCH] Build system improvement

[Pavel Roskin]

On Wed, 2009-07-22 at 14:41 +0200, Felix Zielcke wrote:

> > [0] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2009-05/msg00009.html
> 
> So what's now with it?
> Marco can you at least say something about it?
> It would be very nice if the warnings would be more visible by default.
> Probable we can't ever use -Werror because different compilers produce
> different warnings etc.
> For example gentoo's gcc with his trampoline patch.

I don't see any warnings in any configuration, unless more warning flags
are added (e.g. -Wconversion, which is very noisy).

We can use -Werror by default, but make it very easy to disable.  For
instance, we could have a configure option --disable-strict-warnings.

GRUB is a bootloader; we don't want anyone's system to become unbootable
because something was miscompiled.  Requiring an extra step to disable
warnings would tell users to be more careful.

-- 
Regards,
Pavel Roskin