Re: -Werror considered harmful

[Colin Walters <walters verbum org>]

On Tue, 2013-02-26 at 15:29 -0500, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:


> I'm not questioning that.  I think the right question would be: how
> many bugs
> got fixed in GLib because of the warnings being enabled by default 

Initally?  A lot, some quite bad.  We were leaking internal symbols
for example.

But the nice thing with having the baseline warnings on by default is
that we know it's hard for those kinds of bugs to return.

>  but are you really saying that anyone on Ubuntu ought to
> upgrade their mingw32 toolchain before compiling glib?  That doesn't make
> sense to me.  

No - they can also use the newly added configure option.  But it'd also
clearly be good if Ubuntu's mingw32 toolchain was fixed.  Probably worth
checking whether 12.10 works.  I tried briefly but there don't appear
to be precompiled packages of the glib depchain (zlib, libffi).