Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 1/7] Remove hardcoded strict -Werror checking

[Alistair Francis <alistair.francis@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 7:53 PM, Doug Goldstein <cardoe@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 12/17/16 9:51 AM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
>> On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 02:56:01PM -0800, Alistair Francis wrote:
>>> Signed-off-by: Alistair Francis <alistair.francis@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>>
>> Why?
>
> *adjusts his distro maintainer hat* It's considered really bad form for
> upstreams to push -Werror in their projects. However I know there's
> upstream interest to keep it. The compromise would probably be to get my
> rear in gear and get a wider range of distros testing with Travis CI /
> GitLab CI.

I agree with both points. I understand why upstream wants it there,
but it's a pain.

What about an option to override and remove Werror, so it can still be
enabled by default?

Thanks,

Alistair

>
> --
> Doug Goldstein
>

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