On Thu, Sep 7, 2023 at 2:32 PM Segher Boessenkool <segher@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 07, 2023 at 02:23:00PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 07, 2023 at 06:04:09AM -0500, Segher Boessenkool wrote: > > > On Thu, Sep 07, 2023 at 12:48:25PM +0300, Dan Carpenter via Gcc-patches wrote: > > > > I started to hunt > > > > down all the Makefile which add a -Werror but there are a lot and > > > > eventually I got bored and gave up. > > > > > > I have a patch stack for that, since 2014 or so. I build Linux with > > > unreleased GCC versions all the time, so pretty much any new warning is > > > fatal if you unwisely use -Werror. > > > > > > > Someone should patch GCC so there it checks an environment variable to > > > > ignore -Werror. Somethine like this? > > > > > > No. You should patch your program, instead. > > > > There are 2930 Makefiles in the kernel source. > > Yes. And you need patches to about thirty. Or a bit more, if you want > to do it more cleanly. This isn't a guess. > > > > One easy way is to add a > > > -Wno-error at the end of your command lines. Or even just -w if you > > > want or need a bigger hammer. > > > > I tried that. Some of the Makefiles check an environemnt variable as > > well if you want to turn off -Werror. It's not a complete solution at > > all. I have no idea what a complete solution looks like because I gave > > up. > > A solution can not involve changing the compiler. That is just saying > the kernel doesn't know how to fix its own problems, so let's give the > compiler some more unnecessary problems. You can change the compiler by replacing it with a script that appends -Wno-error for example. > > > Or nicer, put it all in Kconfig, like powerpc already has for example. > > > There is a CONFIG_WERROR as well, so maybe use that in all places? > > > > That's a good idea but I'm trying to compile old kernels and not the > > current kernel. > > You can patch older kernels, too, you know :-) > > If you need to not make any changes to your source code for some crazy > reason (political perhaps?), just use a shell script or shell function > instead of invoking the compiler driver directly? > > > Segher > > Segher
