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Bug 260867 (werror)

Summary: [TRACKER] Packages using -Werror for build
Product: Quality Assurance Reporter: Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) <flameeyes>
Component: TrackersAssignee: Gentoo Quality Assurance Team <qa>
Status: CONFIRMED ---    
Severity: normal CC: adaptee, bertrand, esigra, svrmarty, tdalman
Priority: High Keywords: Tracker
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard:
Package list:
Runtime testing required: ---
Bug Depends on: 485682, 686010, 711090, 713488, 744109, 749879, 755179, 769746, 771216, 771288, 788250, 856583, 856694, 874525, 887285, 887385, 888835, 888944, 889012, 889056, 889334, 889346, 889796, 889910, 890433, 890881, 891297, 891601, 891831, 892023, 892732, 898900, 899564, 904127, 904378, 905448, 906055, 906972, 908677, 910099, 916577, 916580, 916702, 919040, 919755, 920208, 920929, 922604, 924715, 925000, 925361, 927007, 927785, 927935, 928086, 928969, 930584, 198257, 208010, 227861, 238060, 251740, 257265, 260817, 260840, 260847, 260868, 260869, 260870, 260871, 260873, 260874, 260876, 260878, 260880, 260881, 260882, 260884, 260886, 260888, 260889, 260890, 260893, 260894, 260895, 260896, 260897, 260899, 260900, 260901, 260902, 260903, 260905, 260907, 260908, 260910, 260911, 260915, 260917, 260919, 260920, 260921, 260923, 260925, 260927, 260931, 260932, 260934, 260936, 260937, 260939, 260941, 260943, 260945, 260946, 260947, 260948, 260953, 261144, 261147, 265921, 266463, 271251, 271533, 272295, 272301, 277158, 277765, 287746, 303077, 310503, 320759, 320785, 321275, 326761, 347879, 362301, 362303, 362671, 362675, 362733, 363009, 363477, 363723, 363727, 364285, 365195, 366097, 367497, 369639, 369761, 370015, 378179, 387841, 407189, 414323, 415943, 415949, 415953, 416069, 418359, 438424, 440972, 441986, 442278, 442828, 447374, 448160, 451392, 452530, 453910, 455426, 456642, 456654, 460404, 462898, 465048, 469026, 470638, 474686, 474790, 475010, 475350, 475734, 477674, 482576, 485774, 489172, 493940, 499442, 508178, 515114, 526384, 527358, 527360, 528354, 528768, 528934, 528936, 528938, 529026, 529318, 539814, 545398, 557486, 558892, 567428, 568746, 574884, 580808, 594898, 606898, 607158, 618422, 618426, 618428, 618432, 618434, 618438, 621178, 626752, 626754, 630406, 630702, 640076, 640492, 641382, 654202, 656106, 663928, 664294, 665464, 666696, 667104, 673698, 674996, 675344, 675836, 686006, 686100, 686394, 688286, 688634, 691260, 692366, 698442, 698774, 699152, 699636, 700200, 704254, 705438, 714132, 714742, 716760, 717952, 722414, 722920, 732088, 733678, 738156, 741344, 744106, 744118, 744250, 744286, 744289, 744313, 744430, 744436, 744439, 744442, 744445, 744610, 744616, 744634, 744658, 744661, 744841, 744928, 744946, 744970, 744979, 745009, 745012, 745069, 745087, 745090, 745093, 746767, 746770, 747379, 747445, 747481, 747577, 747580, 747583, 747586, 747589, 749165, 750512, 750548, 750707, 750710, 751277, 751301, 751322, 751613, 751637, 751661, 751850, 751874, 751883, 753542, 754120, 754123, 754180, 754279, 756142, 756706, 758065, 758725, 759289, 759796, 762277, 762949, 763291, 764305, 764899, 765364, 766468, 770019, 770355, 770940, 770943, 771219, 772329, 774162, 775623, 775752, 776853, 776925, 777546, 779466, 780912, 781614, 781887, 783978, 785832, 786198, 787854, 787980, 789762, 789795, 798864, 812461, 826606, 828083, 830096, 830988, 831339, 832212, 832365, 832818, 834912, 840152, 840263, 840616, 841020, 841734, 845099, 846938, 847796, 847895, 848765, 851681, 854984, 855386, 859277, 866153, 867424, 882727, 886265, 886441, 887109, 887191, 887229, 887293, 887383, 887613, 887981, 888137, 888442, 888557, 888813, 888837, 888867, 889336, 889444, 889644, 889648, 889840, 890206, 891679, 891681, 891683, 892165, 894498, 895014, 895066, 895102, 895156, 895854, 898142, 898228, 899744, 901485, 902201, 902811, 903694, 903984, 905121, 905469, 906024, 906124, 906343, 906641, 906862, 907263, 907384, 909290, 909301, 909501, 909504, 909558, 909560, 911479, 911481, 912855, 913883, 914189, 915572, 916722, 916732, 917149, 920029, 920457, 920638, 920758, 920891, 921663, 921674, 921710, 922461, 923594, 924112, 925324, 926538, 926705, 927062, 927670, 930336, 931110    
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Description Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2009-03-02 13:49:52 UTC 
This tracker bug is going to be used to report all the packages that currently use -Werror during build, and thus are likely to fail when new GCC releases add more warnings. This also is the cause of many failures related to _FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 in GCC 4.3.3 ebuild.
Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev 2009-03-02 16:58:53 UTC 
i see no need to spam toolchain with this
Comment 2 Alin Năstac (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2009-03-03 11:36:14 UTC 
IMO upstream should be allowed to add -Werror to CFLAGS if they want to. This shows upstream commitment to keep their source tree clean.

Could that break the compilation on newer gcc versions? Of course! 
Should we ignore the warnings instead of fixing the code? I think not!
Comment 3 Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2009-03-03 11:49:29 UTC 
Upstream should use -Werror _during development_, not in release. In release it'll be a waste of time for users.

If GCC adds a warning in version 4.4 "foo bar will be removed from version 4.5", you want NOT to ignore it but also not want to make it fail before. It's a _warning_ for a good reason.

Please read http://blog.flameeyes.eu/2009/02/25/future-proof-your-code-dont-use-werror where I already discussed the problem.
Comment 4 pash 2017-03-18 07:32:47 UTC 
=games-puzzle/sgt-puzzles-20170228
Comment 5 Nikita Zlobin 2017-12-24 22:04:07 UTC 
+ https://bugs.gentoo.org/642164+
Comment 6 Larry the Git Cow gentoo-dev 2024-05-13 17:48:37 UTC 
The bug has been referenced in the following commit(s):

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/proj/guru.git/commit/?id=a36e877ff03e95cbdfee1002330990176b3a22d2

commit a36e877ff03e95cbdfee1002330990176b3a22d2
Author:     Lucio Sauer <watermanpaint@posteo.net>
AuthorDate: 2024-05-12 16:58:55 +0000
Commit:     Lucio Sauer <watermanpaint@posteo.net>
CommitDate: 2024-05-12 17:00:28 +0000

    gui-apps/lswt: fix CFLAGS and support EPREFIX
    
    Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/260867
    Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/927846
    Signed-off-by: Lucio Sauer <watermanpaint@posteo.net>

 gui-apps/lswt/{lswt-1.0.4.ebuild => lswt-1.0.4-r1.ebuild} | 10 +++++++---
 gui-apps/lswt/lswt-9999.ebuild                            |  9 ++++++---
 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)