From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 6 20:58:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from changeofhabit.mr.itd.umich.edu (changeofhabit.mr.itd.umich.edu [141.211.144.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 646F637B65D for ; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 20:58:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from tim.elnsng1.mi.home.com (c1129767-a.elnsng1.mi.home.com [24.183.248.20]) by changeofhabit.mr.itd.umich.edu (8.9.3/3.2r) with SMTP id XAA29980; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 23:57:57 -0500 (EST) From: Tim McMillen To: Wyatt Banks , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kernel configuration question Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 00:02:34 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.1.99] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01020623040701.03509@tim.elnsng1.mi.home.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG They are just that, warnings. Messages to tell the coders to try to clean things up, not errors really. As I heard it, gcc has been raising the amount that it warns about things. As of the 3.0-Release series, the FreeBSD kernel compile is much louder about them. On Tuesday February 06, 2001 14:00, Wyatt Banks wrote: > I didn't see anything in the FAQ or handbook on this, it might not > even be anything important but it can't hurt to ask... > > When I 'make' my kernel, after doing a 'make depend' I see warning > messages fly by. I didn't see anything documented on what to do if > you see warnings fly by on the screen. Should they be ignored? > Usually when I use a compiler, I treat all warnings like errors, If you have the ability we'd all love it if you went through and tracked them all down and fixed them. Read the hanbook section on kernel debugging, and get real friendly with the kernel source :-) You may have to fix up gcc in some cases. Tim -- /""\ \ / X ASCII Ribbon Campaign - Say NO to HTML in email / \ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message