Re: GOP-PROP 5: build system output (final)

[Reinhold Kainhofer]

Am Sonntag, 7. August 2011, 11:11:13 schrieb Phil Holmes:
> There's no intention of stopping make showing errors.  There is an issue
> with warnings - make doc produces so many that the output is pretty much
> unreadable, and they've been ignored for a long time - so having warnings
> turned off by default is the preferred option.  We should allow them to be
> turned back on, though.

For a documentation build, I might agree (some of the warnings are desired, 
like in some regtests, while others are harmless), but for a build of the 
lilypond binary, hiding compiler warnings is a really bad idea, as they 
typically point to grave coding errors (e.g. variable shadowing, unused 
parameters, signed/unsigned messups, etc.). Many of them will directly cause 
bugs.

Cheers,
Reinhold
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