Committer: Diego Biurrun <diego@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: 29/04/2010 at 12:48:37 Revision: 4439 Revision-id: diego@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Branch nick: trunk Log: Document how to override -Werror at configure time. Modified: M INSTALL === modified file 'INSTALL' --- INSTALL 2010-04-13 12:41:34 +0000 +++ INSTALL 2010-04-29 09:48:01 +0000 @@ -47,3 +47,12 @@ ./configure --help will display the multitude of configuration options available for HIPL. + +To keep the developers sharp and honest HIPL is built with -Werror in CFLAGS. +gcc will just error out when issuing a warning. If you experience compilation +failures and just need to get HIPL to build on a combination of platform and +compiler that does produce warnings, you can override -Werror as follows: + + CFLAGS=-Wno-error ./configure + +Then run make as usual.