Re: [Sablevm-developer] suggestion errors on warning by platform

[Grzegorz B. P. <ga...@de...>]

On (11/05/04 23:50), David B?langer wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I would like to suggest to have errors on warning on by default for the
> staging branch for platforms where warnings should not occur:
> Linux on ppc, x86 and maybe other CPU archs.

I think only on ppc and x86. If I recall correctly none of the others
compiles w/o warnings. I'd attribute it to GCC though.

> On other platforms, it would be off by default.
> 
> Sometimes warnings are difficult to see through the output.
> 
> What do you think?

Good idea.  We already have --disable-errors-on-warnings which are useful
if you turn on debug mode no non-intel, non-ppc platform.  I guess you
could build upon that.  Just try to avoid things we have to switch while
migrating code from staging to bugfree and further.  I'd suggest you
use something like that:

case $PACKAGE_VERSION in
  staging*) 
  	case $host in
		i*86*-*-gnu) turn on errors on warnings ;;
		powerpc-*) turn on errors on warings ;;
		...
	esac
  ...
esac

Looking at generated ./configure, it seems that you could as well use
$VERSION or $RELEASE in place of $PACKAGE_VERSION. Not sure which one
would be the best choice.

HTH

					GBP

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