Re: [PATCH] Makefile: enable DEVELOPER by default

From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Aug 4, 2018, 06:38 UTC
Message-ID: <CACsJy8DxSDLD7B8Z+GBFOuU7d7VQ4-M=BP=wptra5rBiZGspSQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20180804060928.GB55869@aiede.svl.corp.google.com>

On Sat, Aug 4, 2018 at 8:11 AM Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:

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> My main concern is not about them but about other
> people building from source in order to run (instead of to develop)
> Git, and by extension, the people they go to for help when it doesn't
> work.  I have lots of bitter experience of -Werror being a support
> headache and leading to bad workarounds when someone upgrades their
> compiler and the build starts failing due to a new warning it has
> introduced.

Even old compilers can also throw some silly, false positive warnings (which now turn into errors) because they are not as smart as new ones.

-- 
Duy