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From: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
To: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>, Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xen.org
Subject: Re: staging: libxl compile error in libxl__domain_save
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2016 15:55:24 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <56D3186C.9070505@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160228154753.GA2179@citrix.com>

On 28/02/16 15:47, Wei Liu wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 10:39:17AM +0100, Olaf Hering wrote:
>> On Sat, Feb 27, Olaf Hering wrote:
>>
>>> -O2 -Wall
>>> -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fstack-protector -funwind-tables
>> I think the cause is the lack of a "maintainer mode", which should
>> enable realworld CFLAGS. Either a new configure knob gets added (and
>> used!) or the existing EXTRA_CFLAGS_* have to be used by commiters. See
>> "grep EXTRA_CFLAGS INSTALL".
>>
> If the current set of compiler flags is not good enough, we should
> improve it. I'm afraid having a third set of maintainer mode flags that
> nobody else uses is going to cause us more headache.

We should be using system-provided CFLAGS/LDFLAGS for all userspace,
appending our own local ones as appropriate.  Anything else is (as
demonstrated here) utterly fragile.

~Andrew

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  reply	other threads:[~2016-02-28 15:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-02-27  8:14 staging: libxl compile error in libxl__domain_save Olaf Hering
2016-02-27 12:35 ` Andrew Cooper
2016-02-27 14:44   ` Wei Liu
2016-02-27 15:25     ` Olaf Hering
2016-02-28  9:39       ` Olaf Hering
2016-02-28 15:47         ` Wei Liu
2016-02-28 15:55           ` Andrew Cooper [this message]
2016-02-29  6:54           ` Olaf Hering
2016-02-29  9:59             ` Andrew Cooper
2016-02-29 10:32               ` Olaf Hering
2016-02-27 13:47 ` Wei Liu
2016-02-27 14:18   ` Wei Liu
2016-02-28  2:01 ` Doug Goldstein
2016-02-28 14:10   ` Andrew Cooper
2016-02-28 20:20     ` Doug Goldstein
2016-02-28 21:06     ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk

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