Formal proposal: move -Wall from --enable-developer to default

[Richard Sharpe]

On Wed, 30 Mar 2005, Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:

> derrell at samba.org wrote:
>
> | Would anyone mind if I modify configure to put -Wall in
> | the default set of CFLAGS without the requirement of
> | specifying --enable-developer?  I believe this will
> | help us all to generate cleaner code and find certain
> | bugs more expeditiously.
>
> I'd rather not.  All developers generally use this which is who
> you want to see the warnings.  adding -Wall to the general
> build will generate a lot more (mostly unnecessary noise)
> when admins.  I'm fine with moving the default in SAMBA_3_0
> to set --enable-developer=yes, but I don't want to change this
> default in the release branch.

I would expect it to generate lots more bugs as well ...

Regards
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