Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 20:08:12 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: "Jeroen C.van Gelderen" <jeroen@vangelderen.org> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, David O'Brien <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG>, Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG>, Mark Murray <markm@FreeBSD.ORG>, current@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Not committing WARNS settings... Message-ID: <20020205200812.A50411@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <526E436C-1AAF-11D6-B59E-00306580B1CA@vangelderen.org>; from jeroen@vangelderen.org on Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 10:12:15PM -0500 References: <20020205100414.A44541@xor.obsecurity.org> <526E436C-1AAF-11D6-B59E-00306580B1CA@vangelderen.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 10:12:15PM -0500, Jeroen C.van Gelderen wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 07:20:46AM -0800, David O'Brien wrote: > >> On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 07:06:54PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: > >>> If you use the argument that one shouldn't set WARNS because a new > >>> compiler will cause the tree to break, then there's no point having it > >>> at all since that condition will always be true. > >> > >> The difference is _impending_. > > > > EPARSE. > > David is about to switch to GCC 3.0 and I guess he does not like moving > targets. I would expect that for the GCC 4.0 upgrade a similar freeze > request will go out. And that seems fair enough since it does not > prevent anyone from applying the actual code fixes. We want to make this > import stuff as easy on David as we can, no? It is a job from hell > already. All David has to do is set WARNS=0 or NO_WERROR=1 in <bsd.sys.mk> or /etc/defaults/make.conf temporarily when he tests and commits the changeover, and he'll sidestep all the problems. There's no need to impose restrictions on the activities of other committers. It's really not a big deal, IMO. Kris [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8YKwsWry0BWjoQKURAjJ2AJ9yWzPfb0EBzKwh/o1bmDoCA5WReQCePqO/ XqXoZEU+6izng3aCOEh/BvE= =bhTd -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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