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Date:      Thu, 11 Jul 2002 18:04:42 -0400
From:      Mike Barcroft <mike@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Cc:        Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@FreeBSD.ORG>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: sparc64 tinderbox failure
Message-ID:  <20020711180442.G89841@espresso.q9media.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020712050755.N25069-100000@gamplex.bde.org>; from bde@zeta.org.au on Fri, Jul 12, 2002 at 05:20:12AM %2B1000
References:  <20020711005344.F89841@espresso.q9media.com> <20020712050755.N25069-100000@gamplex.bde.org>

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Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> writes:
> On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, Mike Barcroft wrote:
> > Comments on the attached, untested patch?
> 
> > Disable fatal warnings during bootstrap, build, and cross tools
> > phase of world.
> 
> The setting of NO_WERROR belongs in [BTX]MAKE if anywhere.  This is
> already done for [BX]MAKE but not for TMAKE.  However, I don't like
> turning off warnings for any of these.  Warnings for these stages may
> be even more important and should be less likely than warnings for
> building the final world, since it is very important for basic tools
> to be correct and for their source to be careful about portabilty
> issues.

Well, unfortunately I don't think we can depend on older compilers
having correct warnings.  In PR 40382, it would seem the 4.5 -> HEAD
upgrade path is broken because of fatal warnings.  A good workaround
for that problem might be specifying NO_WERROR for the entire build,
in which case -Werror becomes useless anyway.  So we might just as
well disable early fatal warnings and hope that developers can catch
most of the bugs later on in the build.

> This also has some style bugs :).  Any setting of NO_WERROR turns it on,
> so setting it to different spellings of boolean true is just confusing.
> It is set correctly for for [BX]MAKE.

Oh, that's a much nicer location.  :)  I think only BMAKE has
NO_WERROR defined, not XMAKE.

Best regards,
Mike Barcroft

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