[Python-Dev] Compiler warnings

[Michael Hudson]

Thomas Wouters <thomas at xs4all.net> writes:

> On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 11:29:16AM -0500, Tim Peters wrote:
>> [Thomas Wouters]
>> > Well, I said 4.0.3, and that was wrong. It's actually a pre-release of 4.0.3
>> > (in Debian's 'unstable' distribution.) However, 4.0.2 (the actual release)
>> > behaves the same way. The normal make process shows quite a lot of output on
>> > systems that use gcc, so I wouldn't be surprised if people did ignore it,
>> > for the most part.
>
>> Does it really?  It's completely warning-free on Windows, and that's
>> the intent, and it takes ongoing work to keep it that way.  Over at,
>> e.g.,
>
> No, it's mostly warning-free, it just outputs a lot of text. By default,
> the warnings don't stand out much. And if you have a decent computer, it
> scrolls by pretty fast, too. ;)

"make -s" is a wonderful thing :)

Cheers,
mwh

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