On Sun, 27 Mar 2011 11:22:48 +0200, giallu(a)gmail.com wrote:
I'm trying to rebuild a package with an autotools based toolchain
and
it's failing because they use -Werror and gcc 4.6 spits out few new
warnings on the code.
You should fix those erors and and submit them upstream.
Now, is it possible to quickly disable -Werror from the ./configure
command line? Right now the only solution I found (short of fixing the
code...) is to patch Makefile.in but that does seem very robust.
It depends on the specific package. For example GDB has --disable-werror:
$ ./configure --help|grep werror
--enable-werror treat compile warnings as errors
Or if there is Makefile.am you should patch it instead of Makefile.in.
If -Werror is contained in Makefile.in and there is no Makefile.am then your
choice is the best way how to disable it (but you should fix the errors
instead).
Regards,
Jan