From owner-freebsd-current Wed Feb 27 15:15:15 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from rwcrmhc52.attbi.com (rwcrmhc52.attbi.com [216.148.227.88]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2EC837B405 for ; Wed, 27 Feb 2002 15:15:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from peter3.wemm.org ([12.232.27.13]) by rwcrmhc52.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020227231510.DOEH1147.rwcrmhc52.attbi.com@peter3.wemm.org> for ; Wed, 27 Feb 2002 23:15:10 +0000 Received: from overcee.wemm.org (overcee.wemm.org [10.0.0.3]) by peter3.wemm.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id g1RNFAs74643 for ; Wed, 27 Feb 2002 15:15:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) Received: from wemm.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by overcee.wemm.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB2B93809; Wed, 27 Feb 2002 15:15:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: Matthew Dillon , Julian Elischer , FreeBSD current users Subject: Re: controversial fix or some errors breaking LINT In-Reply-To: <20020227225459.GY80761@elvis.mu.org> Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 15:15:09 -0800 From: Peter Wemm Message-Id: <20020227231509.EB2B93809@overcee.wemm.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Alfred Perlstein wrote: > * Matthew Dillon [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