Current HEAD is broken

[Gary E. Miller]

Yo Hal!

On Thu, 06 Apr 2017 00:14:48 -0700
Hal Murray <hmurray at megapathdsl.net> wrote:

> gem at rellim.com said:
> >> I'd be happy to have warnings included in "fail".  The idea is to
> >> reduce clutter.  
> > I don't see how that can work, warnings are by defintion not
> > failures.  
> 
> Do you have a correct word?  I assume the goal is to have build work
> without warnings.

Given the number of C compilers we work on that is not possible given
our current staffing.

Just to start:
	1. Get Bison to fix their upstream bugs.
        2. Add checks, and matching code, for several dozen Solaris quirks.
        3. Add checks, and matching code, for several dozen OpenBSD quirks.

> Thus if it does generate any warnings, something
> needs fixing and things will be cleaner if the attempted commit if
> rejected and fixed rather than being accepted and followed by another
> commit to fix the warning.

I'd be thrilled if wanted to take on that project.

> My local scripts grep for "warning".

Easy to make it work on one OS, the trick is getting all the partial
POSIX OS to work.

> I think there is a issue open on the bug that waf check gets errors
> but doesn't "fail" in the sense of returning a non-zero return code.

Diffferent bug.  The bug is that when the tests in the tests/ folder 
fail that waf does not fail.  That is high on my list to fix.

> >> --enable-debug is the default.  I think that makes it normal.  
> > And as recently discussed on IRC, that is wrong and will be fixed
> > soon.   
> 
> Would somebody please summarize.  Changing the default on building
> with debugging seems important enough that it should be mentioned
> (and archived) here rather than only on IRC where lots of people will
> miss it.

Already been discussed on IRC and in email.  To summarize, it is
not appropriate that a 1.0 version has debugging on by default.
Debugging means not stripping the binaries, adding in debug flags, etc.

Pretty much by definition, begging code is code you do not want in a
production binary.  This is also high on my list to fix.

The vast majrity of users will want debugging off, the few that want it
can turm it on.

RGDS
GARY
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