Re: bin/48907: make issues fatal errors as warnings

[David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR bin/48907; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: bin/48907: make issues fatal errors as warnings
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2014 05:10:44 +0000

 On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 06:55:01PM +0000, matthew green wrote:
  >  if you make this a fatal error the build will break in GCC 4.8
  >  right now because "DEV-PHASE" file is empty and make complains
  >  about "no output from shell" or something, even tho getting a
  >  empty output is actually what we want.
 
 That check catches a lot more problems than it causes (even though it
 can be annoying) so in the absence of other ideas I'd rather keep it.
 It shouldn't be fatal, but genuine exec errors should be.
 
 (also, may I edit the original submission to refer to != instead
 of :=? that was confusing at first.)
 
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 David A. Holland
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