develooper Front page | perl.perl5.porters | Postings from July 2001

Re: -Wall in 5.8

From:
Andy Dougherty
Date:
July 31, 2001 07:22
Subject:
Re: -Wall in 5.8
Message ID:
Pine.SOL.4.10.10107311022180.6858-100000@maxwell.phys.lafayette.edu
On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:

> > Perhaps a better approach would to have -Wall permanently enabled for the
> > core build (including all core modules), but disabled for any subsequent
> > module builds.
> 
> Yes, that would be nice(r), but it's too early in the morning for me to
> think how to achieve this... maybe diddle with MakeMaker to remove the
> -Wall if present...?

I don't like MakeMaker taking away flags the user may have deliberately
added.  Perhaps if we want to guarantee that the core is always
built with -Wall, then ccflags.SH ought to add -Wall?

-- 
    Andy Dougherty		doughera@lafayette.edu
    Dept. of Physics
    Lafayette College, Easton PA 18042




nntp.perl.org: Perl Programming lists via nntp and http.
Comments to Ask Bjørn Hansen at ask@perl.org | Group listing | About