[cfe-dev] [llvm-dev] New buildbot with -Werror

[Eric Christopher via cfe-dev]

Hey, that's handy. Thanks Chris!

-eric

On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 12:43 PM Chris Matthews via cfe-dev <
cfe-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:

> I just changed this build on green dragon to warn and email if warnings
> are found in the console log:
>
> http://lab.llvm.org:8080/green/job/clang-stage1-cmake-RA_build/
>
> On Mar 22, 2016, at 6:24 PM, David Jones via llvm-dev <
> llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 5:06 PM Hal Finkel via llvm-dev <
> llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
>
>> I think having -Werror bots is a good idea, at least when self hosting.
>> Non-self-hosting -Werror (i.e. with older versions of Clang, or with GCC,
>> etc.) might also be useful, but I'm less sure (since we can't fix those
>> warnings if the warning is the problem).
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 5:12 PM, Chandler Carruth <chandlerc at google.com>
> wrote:
>
>> My thought was that its reasonable to expect no warnings when building
>> from bootstrap (as you say) and the last release of Clang. Generally, I
>> think we should work around warnings in the last release of Clang if only
>> for the convenience of folks using that release to build stage1 and using
>> Werror.
>>
>> Certainly, we tend to fix warnings even from earlier Clang versions and
>> from GCC in order to keep Werror clean.
>>
>
> I've dug around a bit, and it looks to me like separating phase1 and
> phase2 behavior is going to be a bit tricky (looking at zorg [*]) as long
> as we want -Wno-error as the default for buildbots.
>
> So, the first thing I would propose is to add this buildbot and run it for
> a while, just to see what the current background rate of breakages will be.
> I think getting a feel for the baseline is going to be a solid first step.
>
> If that signal is good enough, and folks are happy getting nag mail when
> they cause regressions :-) , then it probably makes sense to change the
> zorg build commands to use -Wno-error on phase1 and -Werror on phase 2 by
> default. That insulates against host compiler issues, but remains strict
> when self-hosting.
>
> For Chandler's suggestion to use -Werror on a phase 1 build with the
> current release, that seems perfectly reasonable; but again, it's probably
> best encoded with a zorg change specifically for that case. (I don't want
> to add too many magical layers of CMake option overrides for two-phase
> builds...)
>
> [*] I'm specifically looking at _getClangCMakeBuildFactory here:
>
> http://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/zorg/trunk/zorg/buildbot/builders/ClangBuilder.py
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