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Re: Results of a multi-build (not good)


> Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 12:11:05 -0500
> From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com>
> > 
> > IMHO, -Werror is a Bad Idea (tm).  With the current trend in GCC and 
> > other compilers to print warnings for perfectly valid C, -Werror tends to 
> > break good code with every new release of GCC, to say nothing of 
> > development snapshots people use.
> > 
> > I think we should stop using -Werror, except maybe in maintainer's mode.
> 
> -Werror is only enabled when someone explicitly specifies it with 
> --enable-gdb-warnings=,-Werror.

Then how come Richard has failures on platforms that didn't use
that?  Richard, did you enable -Werror explicitly?


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