Re: [Elftoolchain-developers] my current list of workarounds to get elftoolchain to install on Ubuntu

[Daniel W. <dan...@gm...>]

>>>> on Linux, the instructions are wrong: just using pmake will not work,
>>>> you must invoke it as follows:
>>>>
>>>>     $ NOGCCERROR=1 pmake
>>>
>>> What errors do you see if you do not?
>>
>> Some warning that turns into a build error; I can't recall as it has
>> been a while.  However it was a *lot* of work to figure this out:
>> grepping around through files here and there.  This is the kind of
>> thing that will stop most people, so if you want to increase adoption,
>> just fixing this one point could make a major difference.
>
> As far as I can tell this flag fixes the build by disabling -Werror.
> We should probably do two things here: fix the warnings that were
> promoted into errors, and also only enable -Werror on the platforms
> normally used by developers (i.e., in my case FreeBSD and Clang).

Well, instead of predicating it on the platform, how about making
-Werror off by default and only turning it on using an environment
variable?  Right now it is the reverse.