Compromise reached as Linux kernel community protests about treating compiler warnings as errors

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Sep 9, 2021 2:15 AM EDT
The Register; By Tim Anderson
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Pushback from the Linux kernel community over defaulting to -Werror (make all warnings into errors) for compiling has resulted in a compromise where this default only applies to test builds. Linux creator and maintainer Linus Torvalds amended the Makefile used to compile the kernel so that -Werror was the default, saying: "We really should always have a clean build." The code was merged into what will be version 5.15 of the kernel.

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