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

[Danny Mayer]

On 2/24/2013 4:15 AM, Peter Koch wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 12:49:28PM -0500, Robert Edmonds wrote:
> 
>> most people compiling from release tarballs are not going to be
>> packagers or autobuilders or even programmers, and any compiler
>> diagnostics will be meaningless to them, so building with -Werror just
>> pointlessly increases the support burden.
> 
> with that same premise I'd come to the opposite conclusion. If those
> messages were meaningles to the target audience, how would those people
> make an informed decision to accept the risk?  And further to that,
> whenever that warning had a case, isn't running unreliable software
> asking for more of a 'support burden'?
> 
> -Peter

I agree with Peter on this. If the messages are meaningless to them then
they will ask the ISC about them and someone will take a look and figure
out whether or not they are a problem and what to do with them. During
BIND9 development I tracked down EVERY warning message that the compiler
gave and figured out what was wrong and why and fixed them. In some
cases the code was really at fault. In other cases minor changes would
make the warnings go away.

Danny