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

[Clemens Buchacher <drizzd aon at>]

On Fri, Nov 02, 2012 at 10:32:25AM -0400, Pavel Simerda wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> And?

And it is therefore not a solution to do nothing and force the package
maintainers to deal with this issue.