Re: [Devil-linux-develop] Opinion please; What do you think?

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

Sounds good.

Heiko

Quoting Andrzej Odyniec <an...@ma...>:

> Heiko Zuerker wrote:
>> Andrzej,
>>
>> I don't recall, but is it possible that I actually removed the
>> "--fatal-warnings" from the patch?
>> Can you compare with the original version from the LFS website?
>
> Heiko, you don't. This situation is in original lfs patches. I think, this is
> policy decision of Robert Connolly at lfs. In this same patch at 4.5.1 and
> 4.5.3 he added intentionally in gcc.c line:
> +  %{!no-fatal-warnings:--fatal-warnings} "
>
> So this is current policy. And generally: proper decision.
>
>> I don't think it makes sense to modify every package. Actually the
>> right approach would be to find/create patches that will correct the
>> compiler warnings and replace the less secure code. But that's a lot
>> of work...
>
> Yes, this is lot of work. Some packages can be upgraded to version without
> this warnings. But i.e. gzip is not corrected from old times. So there is
> needed patch in gcc or CC="gcc -no-fatal-warnings" in the script.
>
> For first time I will use modified myself pie patch at 4.5.3 for find other
> problems. After I will try to do statistics about packages generating
> warnings. And after I will report this. We will think, what is better.
>
> Regards
>
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   Heiko Zuerker