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| author | Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith@oracle.com> | 2012-03-30 20:39:06 -0700 |
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| committer | Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith@oracle.com> | 2012-03-31 14:17:32 -0700 |
| commit | ed7423f6331ce0ad306e7ddb7d9fc3300f0ad06d (patch) | |
| tree | f5f17ecdb0562a69a80492f122f438730648451d | |
| parent | 7c75b1ab2ce0527638b811c4d17befecf845238c (diff) | |
Release Notes: add note about new strict compilation flags
Signed-off-by: Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeremy Huddleston <jeremyhu@apple.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | general/ReleaseNotes.xml | 23 |
1 files changed, 23 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/general/ReleaseNotes.xml b/general/ReleaseNotes.xml index 3350cc8..17681fe 100644 --- a/general/ReleaseNotes.xml +++ b/general/ReleaseNotes.xml @@ -945,6 +945,29 @@ url="http://who-t.blogspot.com/2012/01/xkb-breaking-grabs-cve-2012-0064.html" <sect1 id='Build_changes_and_issues'> <title>Build changes and issues</title> + <sect2 id='Strict_compilation_flags'> + <title>Strict compilation flags</title> + + <para> + Most of the modules in this release use stricter compiler flags + when building with the GNU gcc, LLVM clang, Oracle Solaris Studio, + or Intel compilers. These flags both enable more warnings, and + promote some warnings to fatal errors in the build. If these + flags cause your build to fail, you can disable the flags that + turn these selected warnings into errors by adding + <option>--disable-selective-werror</option> to the configure command + for the affected module. If that is necessary for any X.Org modules, + please report a bug in the xorg product on + <ulink url="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/" />. + </para> + + <para> + Builders seeking even stricter compiler checks can instead pass + <option>--enable-strict-compilation</option> to the configure command + to make all warnings become errors. + </para> + </sect2> + <sect2 id='Silent_build_rules'> <title>Silent build rules</title> |