[scribus-dev] Can please someone teach me how to fix the current compiler/build warnings

Kunda Loves Scribus scribus.user at gmail.com
Sat Dec 12 22:53:59 UTC 2015


On Sat, Dec 12, 2015 at 3:09 PM, William Bader <williambader at hotmail.com>
wrote:

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> ------------------------------
> From: owen.cook at gmx.com
> To: scribus-dev at lists.scribus.net
> Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2015 21:01:17 +0100
> Subject: Re: [scribus-dev] Can please someone teach me how to fix the
> current compiler/build warnings
>
> I think if you read man gcc, you will find the option Wall (all warnings)
> that if turned off will remove those warnings.
>
> Have you tried searching Google for "cmake turn off warnings"
>
> Still intrigued as to why you want to do this.
>
>
> Owen
> --
>
>

> The best option, though, is changing the code not to get the warnings.
> Even if a warning is not really a problem, like a warning about a possibly
> uninitialized variable that you can verify is initialized whenever it is
> used, the warnings can indicate code that is brittle or that requires extra
> effort from other people who review the code.
>
>
> For my personal development, I set a high warning level and try to design
> my code not to get any warnings during builds.  If you get too many
> warnings, you tend to ignore them, and then it is easy to miss real
> warnings in the stream of expected warnings.  Warnings can also confuse
> other people trying to build your code who don't know what is normal and
> what is really a problem.
>
>
> Regards, William
>
>
William,
Your POV makes sense to me. Even if it's a super inane warning, I'm happy
to learn how to fix it.

/Kunda
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