[XFS SUMMIT] xfs and gcc

[XFS SUMMIT] xfs and gcc

[Bill O'Donnell]

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. 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?

Thanks-
Bill

Re: [XFS SUMMIT] xfs and gcc

[Darrick J. Wong]

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.

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
> 

Re: [XFS SUMMIT] xfs and gcc

[Bill O'Donnell]

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
> > 
>