On Friday, February 25, 2011 08:17:51 PM Dennis Gilmore wrote: > On Friday, February 25, 2011 08:10:01 PM David Miller wrote: > > From: Dennis Gilmore <dennis@xxxxxxxx> > > Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 18:06:00 -0600 > > > > > This is due to gcc-4.6 it throws warnings for defined but unused > > > variables. without this we cant build the kernel at all. i have buil > > > tested but not tried to run yet > > > > Then fix the warnings since they are likely legitimate. > > > > We've had -Werror there for _years_, don't just knee jerk remove > > it because some new compiler notices new problems. > > -- > > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe sparclinux" in > > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > a build with this patch results in the following a shorter followup grep Wunused-but-set-variable build.log |wc -l 1257 in pretty much every section of the kernel. so yes while it will need fixing its not something i have the time to do right now. Perhaps i should just carry the patch in the fedora kernel until we can fully resolve the issues. x86_64 and i686 dont use -Werror so i doubt ill get much help there. dennis
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