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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 1/5] Remove hardcoded strict -Werror checking



On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 2:11 PM, Alistair Francis
<alistair.francis@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 2:00 PM, Doug Goldstein <cardoe@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On 12/22/16 3:47 PM, Andrew Cooper wrote:
>>> On 22/12/16 21:41, Alistair Francis wrote:
>>>> On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 1:15 PM, Alistair Francis
>>>> <alistair.francis@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>> On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 1:12 PM, Alistair Francis
>>>>> <alistair.francis@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>> On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 11:22 AM, Ian Jackson
>>>>>> <ian.jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>>> Alistair Francis writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 1/5] Remove
>>>>>>> hardcoded strict -Werror checking"):
>>>>>>>> On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 12:41 AM, Jan Beulich <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>
>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>> On 20.12.16 at 20:46, <alistair.francis@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Alistair Francis <alistair.francis@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>>>>>> Without some rationale given I don't think such changes are
>>>>>>>>> acceptable at all. And then, as already pointed out others, the
>>>>>>>>> use of -Werror is there not just for fun. If anything I think an
>>>>>>>>> override to that default could be acceptable.
>>>>>>>> Unfortunately the APPEND_CFLAGS=-Wno-error doesn't fix all the issues
>>>>>>>> as I still see warnings/errors when building: tools/kconfig/conf.c.
>>>>>>> That sounds like a bug to me.  Do you know why it's not effective
>>>>>>> there ?
>>>>>> It actually might be an issue in the way buildroot is handling the
>>>>>> arguments.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'll look into it and see what I find after the holidays.
>>>> I dug into this a little more. Adding the APPEND_CFLAGS="-Wno-error"
>>>> fixes almost everything. The only problem I see is in the log below,
>>>> where tools/kconfig/conf.c fails to build as the -Wno-error doesn't
>>>> propagate down.
>>>>
>>>> If I manage to find a fix today I'll send it, otherwise this can wait
>>>> until next year.
>>>
>>> Something like this?
>>>
>>> diff --git a/xen/Makefile b/xen/Makefile
>>> index dc6862e04d..2d7a567c9c 100644
>>> --- a/xen/Makefile
>>> +++ b/xen/Makefile
>>> @@ -253,14 +253,14 @@ kconfig := silentoldconfig oldconfig config
>>> menuconfig defconfig \
>>>         randconfig
>>>  .PHONY: $(kconfig)
>>>  $(kconfig):
>>> -       $(MAKE) -f $(BASEDIR)/tools/kconfig/Makefile.kconfig
>>> ARCH=$(ARCH) SRCARCH=$(SRCARCH) HOSTCC="$(HOSTCC)" HOSTCXX="$(HOSTCXX)" $@
>>> +       $(MAKE) -f $(BASEDIR)/tools/kconfig/Makefile.kconfig
>>> ARCH=$(ARCH) SRCARCH=$(SRCARCH) HOSTCC="$(HOSTCC)" HOSTCXX="$(HOSTCXX)"
>>> HOST_EXTRACFLAGS="$(APPEND_CFLAGS)" $@
>>>
>>>  include/config/%.conf: include/config/auto.conf.cmd $(KCONFIG_CONFIG)
>>> -       $(MAKE) -f $(BASEDIR)/tools/kconfig/Makefile.kconfig
>>> ARCH=$(ARCH) SRCARCH=$(SRCARCH) HOSTCC="$(HOSTCC)" HOSTCXX="$(HOSTCXX)"
>>> silentoldconfig
>>> +       $(MAKE) -f $(BASEDIR)/tools/kconfig/Makefile.kconfig
>>> ARCH=$(ARCH) SRCARCH=$(SRCARCH) HOSTCC="$(HOSTCC)" HOSTCXX="$(HOSTCXX)"
>>> HOST_EXTRACFLAGS="$(APPEND_CFLAGS)" silentoldconfig
>>>
>>>  # Allow people to just run `make` as before and not force them to
>>> configure
>>>  $(KCONFIG_CONFIG):
>>> -       $(MAKE) -f $(BASEDIR)/tools/kconfig/Makefile.kconfig
>>> ARCH=$(ARCH) SRCARCH=$(SRCARCH) HOSTCC="$(HOSTCC)" HOSTCXX="$(HOSTCXX)"
>>> defconfig
>>> +       $(MAKE) -f $(BASEDIR)/tools/kconfig/Makefile.kconfig
>>> ARCH=$(ARCH) SRCARCH=$(SRCARCH) HOSTCC="$(HOSTCC)" HOSTCXX="$(HOSTCXX)"
>>> HOST_EXTRACFLAGS="$(APPEND_CFLAGS)" defconfig
>>>
>>>  # Break the dependency chain for the first run
>>>  include/config/auto.conf.cmd: ;
>>>
>>
>> That should do the trick.
>>
>> Reviewed-by: Doug Goldstein <cardoe@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> I got this to work as well:
>
> diff --git a/xen/tools/kconfig/Makefile b/xen/tools/kconfig/Makefile
> index aceaaed..32e2359 100644
> --- a/xen/tools/kconfig/Makefile
> +++ b/xen/tools/kconfig/Makefile
> @@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ check-lxdialog  :=
> $(srctree)/$(src)/lxdialog/check-lxdialog.sh
>  # Use recursively expanded variables so we do not call gcc unless
>  # we really need to do so. (Do not call gcc as part of make mrproper)
>  HOST_EXTRACFLAGS += $(shell $(CONFIG_SHELL) $(check-lxdialog) -ccflags) \
> -                    -DLOCALE
> +                    -DLOCALE $(APPEND_CFLAGS)
>
>  # ===========================================================================
>  # Shared Makefile for the various kconfig executables:
>
> But yours looks like it should work as well.
>
> Do you want to send a patch?

You can add this to it:

Reviewed-by: Alistair Francis <alistair.francis@xxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Alistair Francis <alistair.francis@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks,

Alistair

>
> Thanks,
>
> Alistair
>
>>
>> --
>> Doug Goldstein
>>
>>
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