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From: Sergio Durigan Junior <sergiodj@sergiodj.net>
Subject: Re: Installing a C tool chain
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 18:57:26 -0300
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To: Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= <ludo@gnu.org>
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On Monday, April 14 2014, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s wrote:

>> Is it deprecated to use -Werror with the autotoools?
>
> In general, using -Werror is very risky, because a slight change in a
> third-party header, or in compiler warnings, can cause the project to
> fail to build.  In Guile building with -Werror is opt-in for this
> reason.

In GDB we use it by default, and it generally does a good service for us
without causing headaches, but of course, as Ludo said, this is mostly a
project's decision.  However, I wouldn't say that using -Werror is
deprecated :-).

--=20
Sergio