On 4/10/19 3:20 PM, Maynard, Chris wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Wireshark-dev [mailto:wireshark-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
>> Behalf Of Guy Harris
>> Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2019 5:35 PM
>> To: Developer support list for Wireshark <wireshark-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Subject: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Wireshark 3.0.1 build warning on Windows
>>
>> Check out
>>
>> https://buildbot.wireshark.org/wireshark-
>> 3.0/builders/Windows%20Server%202016%20x86/builds/177/steps/compile_1/l
>> ogs/warnings%20%281%29
>>
>> and all the builds back to 2019-04-01 - they all have the warning.
>
> OK, I'm not sure how you were able to navigate your way to that page, but I'm glad you found it so I know the warning wasn't just with my environment.
>
> I usually start at https://buildbot.wireshark.org/wireshark-master/waterfall and navigate my way from there. So, for example, I when looking for warnings, I might navigate along this path for a somewhat recent build:
> https://buildbot.wireshark.org/wireshark-master/builders/Windows%20Server%202016%20x86
> https://buildbot.wireshark.org/wireshark-master/builders/Windows%20Server%202016%20x86/builds/5118
> https://buildbot.wireshark.org/wireshark-master/builders/Windows%20Server%202016%20x86/builds/5118/steps/compile_1
>
> ... but here the warnings are shown as 0, and there's nothing in the stdio log to indicate any warnings either, although I suspect this is intentional if warnings are being redirected elsewhere (stderr or a separate warnings file).
>
>> Is it intentional that we're not building with the "fail on warnings" flag on the
>> 3.0 Windows buildbot?
>
> Good question. I think it is, but maybe for a very old reason that nobody can remember?
One of the items in the major release checklist is "Set DISABLE_WERROR=ON in CMakeOptions.txt". We use the default DISABLE_WERROR setting on each of the builders, so "fail on warnings" is enabled in the master branch and disabled in each of the release branches. As I recall, the checklist step was added because enabling "fail on warnings" could cause issues in some cases, e.g. if you tried to build an older Wireshark branch using a newer, pickier compiler, or if a particular library (which might start with the letter "G") started to throw warnings about deprecated functions.
I'll add "-DDISABLE_WERROR=OFF" to the CMake steps on the master-3.0, master-2.6, and master-2.4 builders.
