Re: [PATCH] fix build: disable -Werror by default (Bug #679130)

[Clemens Buchacher <drizzd aon at>]

On Fri, Nov 02, 2012 at 09:16:29AM -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-11-02 at 11:59 +0100, Clemens Buchacher wrote:
> 
> > So this has been an issue for a while, and the -Werror flag does not
> > help anything besides breaking the build. 
> 
> You're going to have to learn how to pass options to "configure" if
> you're building software in general.  It's really the maintainer's
> discretion what the defaults are.

It is not the purpose of configure to work around platform-independent
build failures.