[CentOS] why are warning be treated as errors?

[Brunner, Brian T.]

centos-bounces at centos.org wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am trying to compile RHEL-6 kernel srpm on Fedora 14 and
> run into the following problem. From what I read
> -Werror flag causes warnings to be treated as errors - but I
> don't see that flag on in the following. Any ideas?

My guess: 
gcc4.4.4 had --disable-werror by default, so we must -werror explicitly
to get warning treated as errors; 
gcc4.5.1 does NOT have --disable-werror by default, so, 
unless you specify --disable-werror on the compile line, warnings are
treated like errors.

I don't have either compiler version here at work, so I can't verify.

ANYHOW, if your 4.5.1 build tree Makefile has CFLAGS with
--disable-werrors in it, does the problem go away?

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