Re: It's warnings all the way down, sir!

[Simon Sobisch]

I fail to see how that is relevant to gnucobol-users, directly, if it
isn't please don't post that to this list...

Note: cobc has an open feature request to ignore unknown warning flags -
it will currently always error if you throw
-Wsomething -Wno-something-else
at it.

Simon

Am 13.11.2020 um 17:20 schrieb James K. Lowden:
> Posted today on comp.unix.programmer:
>
> -Werror is a gcc option turning all warnings into fatal errors. The m4
> 1.4.17 build system enables -Werror and wants to enable a warning
> called "mudflap". gcc 8.3.0 (Debian 10) doesn't support this warning
> anymore. Trying to enable a warning which isn't supported causes a
> warning. Hence, m4 1.4.17 can't be built with gcc 8.3.0 because the
> warning caused by trying to enable a warning which doesn't exist
> anymore is turned into a fatal error by -Werror.