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Date:      Fri, 8 Mar 2002 15:23:23 -0500
From:      Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
To:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, "David W. Chapman Jr." <dwcjr@inethouston.net>
Cc:        Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG>, Murray Stokely <murray@FreeBSD.ORG>, <developers@FreeBSD.ORG>, <current@FreeBSD.ORG>, <re@FreeBSD.ORG>, <portmgr@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: HEADS UP: Be nice to -CURRENT ( "1 week Feature Slush" )
Message-ID:  <p05101526b8aec96f100e@[128.113.24.47]>
In-Reply-To: <20020309044402.P4157-100000@gamplex.bde.org>
References:  <20020309044402.P4157-100000@gamplex.bde.org>

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At 4:57 AM +1100 3/9/02, Bruce Evans wrote:
>I'm surprised that everyone hasn't complained about world breakage
>from this.  It has been broken for almost 2 weeks now.  Everything
>that goes near ntohl and has WARNS >= 2 fails to compile.  Without
>WARNS, the bug is reported as above, but a bogus version of __hton*
>is found in the library and only optimization of hton* is broken.

Well, I get compile-time warning messages when doing a buildworld
of current, but nothing actually breaks.  I do not do much of
anything fancy with resetting WARNS, so my guess is that the
"default buildworld settings" will not run into a show-stopping
error due to these loose ends.

I think part of it is that some things (like 'lpr' for instance)
were changed to use 'BDECFLAGS' instead of some compiler-specific
list of flags (in -stable lpr has '-Wall -Wnested-externs
-Wmissing-prototypes -Wno-unused -Wredundant-decls
-Wstrict-prototypes').

That probably sounds like a step up in warning level, except that
we also removed BDECFLAGS from /etc/defaults/make.conf.  In fact,
there is no /etc/defaults/make.conf in current, it was moved to
/usr/share/examples/etc/make.conf.  So I expect that most people
(including me) have effectively gone to compiling with zero special
CWARNFLAGS parameters for those modules.

I'll make a wild guess and say that it's possible that Bruce might
have some BDECFLAGS set in his /etc/make.conf, so he is probably
seeing more warning messages than the average person...

-- 
Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad@freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih@rpi.edu

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