Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Buildbot compile flags

[Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>]

Stephen Fisher wrote:
> The Unix(/Mac) buildbots are failing with warnings turned errors 
> (-Werror) caused by the --with-extra-gcc-checks option to configure 
> (adds things like -pedantic).
>
> Do we need the buildbots to compile with these extra warnings?  I'm not 
> enabling them when fixing warnings and turning on -Werror, so it's 
> breaking unexpectedly.  An example of one of the new warnings is:
>
> ber.c:70: warning: ISO C90 does not support the `ll' printf length 
> modifier
>   
Well, as I've mentioned before, temporarily lowering the warning level 
might be a way to get things done.

Having the buildbot red for a long time is not an option IMHO.

But of course you should raise the warning level again, once these 
warnings are fixed (which should be done in the foreseeable future) ...

Regards, ULFL