Re: [PATCH 1/2] MIPS: Kbuild: remove -Werror

[Jonas Gorski <jonas.gorski@gmail.com>]

Hi,
On 6 May 2012 11:14, Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org> wrote:
> On Sun, 6 May 2012, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
>
>> >  And my opinion is based on experience.  Please check the LMO archives for
>> > why Ralf added this option in the first place -- many years ago.  It's
>> > probably recorded in the git repository too (I'm not sure if the option
>> > was added before or after we moved away from CVS, but in any case old
>> > change logs have been imported when our current repo was created).
>>
>> We need to figure out how to make -Werror be applied only when we do not
>> have W=[123].
>
>  Hmm, that sounds better, however has the counter-intuitive side-effect of
> lowering the severity of the warnings that are enabled even without
> W=[123].
>
>  Modern versions of GCC have that selective -Wno-error=foo option and I
> think it should be possible to build the precise list of warnings not to
> choke on locally in arch/mips/Kbuild with little Makefile magic, falling
> back to something sane for older GCC versions (I'm not sure exactly when
> these selective options were added, certainly sometime between 4.1 and
> 4.3).
>
>  This will be a bit imperfect if any of these additional -Wfoo options
> duplicate ones already added to KBUILD_CFLAGS in our top-level Makefile
> (either explicitly or via -Wall), but that's about the best we can do.
> I'll see if I can cook up something quickly.

Hm, how about doing it the other way round, i.e. explicitly enable
which warnings we want to treat as errors with -Werror=foo? That way
we don't lower the severity when W=[123] and new default enabled
warnings in gcc can't break the build any more, just better (or worse
;-) heuristics can.


Jonas