[bind10-dev] Use of -Werror in release tarballs

[Mukund Sivaraman]

Hi all

This is a request for feedback on whether we should include or remove
-Werror from the release tarballs.

The -Werror compiler flag causes compiler warnings to become errors, and
aborts the compile. In the BIND 10 master tree, this flag is enabled by
default when performing compiles. Should we use this flag by default in
the release tarball too?

The effect of adding this flag is that in case a future version of a
compiler notices anything that it should warn about (that may or may not
be a problem) when compiling the stable BIND 10 release, it will abort
the compile.

We have some arguments for and against including this flag. Without
mentioning them here, this is a request polling everyone (esp. those who
intend to compile BIND 10 from source) to give their input. It will
affect whether we ship BIND 10 stable releases with the flag included or
not.

		Mukund
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