Re: [XFS SUMMIT] xfs and gcc

[Bill O'Donnell <billodo@redhat.com>]

On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 10:24:40AM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 10:03:06AM -0500, Bill O'Donnell wrote:
> > Hello -
> > 
> > I'd be interested in having some discussion about the forward momentum
> > of gcc, and xfs staying in reasonable sync with it. I'm sure you've noticed
> > the warnings stacking up as xfs and xfsprogs is built.

To be fair, I'm only seeing a bunch of warnings on xfsprogs builds. ;)

> 
> Not really, because I'm still running gcc 8.4.  At least until I sort
> through the remaining grub brain damage and actually upgrade every
> system. :D
> 
> > With gcc-10 coming
> > about in distros, the inevitable warnings and errors will become more than
> > annoying.
> > 
> > How best to approach modifications to xfs to alleviate these build issues?
> 
> No idea. :(
> 
> Admittedly it would be nice to ask the kernel robot or something like it
> if it's willing to take on building some of the core userspace packages.
> They're a little spammy (we recently had a cppcheck episode) but more
> often than not, it does catch minor problems.
> 
> --D
> 
> > Thanks-
> > Bill
> > 
>