[OpenAFS-devel] Building with --enable-checking

[Rod Widdowson]

GCC 4.1.2 looks pretty much like a bad idea (another strike against
Centos5).

I'll upgrade to 4.2 and then report back.

Thanks

/R

> -----Original Message-----
> From: openafs-devel-admin@openafs.org
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> On Behalf Of Simon Wilkinson
> Sent: 31 May 2010 10:43
> To: Rod Widdowson
> Cc: openafs-devel@openafs.org
> Subject: Re: [OpenAFS-devel] Building with --enable-checking
> 
> 
> On 31 May 2010, at 10:33, Rod Widdowson wrote:
> >
> > I've googled around and had a trawl through the archives to no immediate
> > avail; so what am I missing?
> 
> In theory, nothing
> 
> ./configure --enable-checking
> 
> should be all you need to turn on a checked build, with the appropriate
> suppression of 'known' warnings.
> 
> Now, this only works with gcc 4.2 or later. If you're running an older
version
> of gcc, turning on enable-checking will probably break things (we should
> probably check for this in the configure script). Also, the warnings that
are
> produced varies by platform, and compiler. I test regularly on Mac OS X,
and
> Andrew and Marc pick up warnings on i386 and x86_64 Linux. On other
platforms,
> your mileage will vary.
> 
> The best bet would probably be if you put the output from make somewhere,
so
> we can see the errors you're getting.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Simon.
> 
> 
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