Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 15:15:09 -0800 From: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org> Cc: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, FreeBSD current users <current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: controversial fix or some errors breaking LINT Message-ID: <20020227231509.EB2B93809@overcee.wemm.org> In-Reply-To: <20020227225459.GY80761@elvis.mu.org>
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Alfred Perlstein wrote: > * Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> [020227 14:51] wrote: > > > > : > > :ok so I leave it to other people to fix LINT > > :I'm not going near it any more > > > > It's the responsibility of whoever added -Werror to the default > > compile to unbreak the tree, either by fixing the problem or by > > backing out his commit. > > No. Leave it in, this will benifit us all in the long run. > > In fact it was the _only_ way I was able to get people clean > up bad code at a former job and I strongly support keeping > -Weerror enabled. If there are files that are too hard to fix, or vendor files, or the fix isn't clear, we should use the nowerror conf/files* flags. It is important that we stop new warnings turning up when the compile output is so damn large that it hides things. I will do a pass over things now and see what I can do. Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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