From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1MTeTD-0005CQ-9a for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Jul 2009 12:15:07 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MTeTA-000590-4w for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Jul 2009 12:15:04 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MTeT5-00052h-98 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Jul 2009 12:15:03 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=56053 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MTeT5-00052R-2m for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Jul 2009 12:14:59 -0400 Received: from c60.cesmail.net ([216.154.195.49]:60115) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_ARCFOUR_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MTeT4-0005eU-Hg for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Jul 2009 12:14:58 -0400 Received: from unknown (HELO smtprelay1.cesmail.net) ([192.168.1.111]) by c60.cesmail.net with ESMTP; 22 Jul 2009 12:14:57 -0400 Received: from [192.168.0.22] (static-72-92-88-10.phlapa.fios.verizon.net [72.92.88.10]) by smtprelay1.cesmail.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 0BADC34C69 for ; Wed, 22 Jul 2009 12:14:55 -0400 (EDT) From: Pavel Roskin To: The development of GRUB 2 In-Reply-To: <1248266462.3517.11.camel@fz.local> References: <1232851143.23773.13.camel@localhost> <49DFD57E.9040905@gmail.com> <200904111909.48927.okuji@enbug.org> <1241339354.3750.8.camel@fz.local> <1248266462.3517.11.camel@fz.local> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 12:14:54 -0400 Message-Id: <1248279294.8929.7.camel@mj> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.26.3 (2.26.3-1.fc11) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. Subject: Re: [PATCH] Build system improvement X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 16:15:04 -0000 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