[sldev] -Werror (was: Notes from a Mac Build)

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On Wednesday 04 November 2009 10:05:45 am Lillian Yiyuan wrote:
> -Werror is supplied by the make files. This too involves changing
> code, and is a bad idea in open source, since it gets people to check
> problems before submitting them as patches.
> 
> Better here, I think, would be to make this opaque, rather than having
> constant strings in cpp files that the code hands out char * to.
> 
> The compiler is right here, this is a bad idea, and it should be fixed
> rather than swept under the rug.
> 

From the Coding Standard wiki at 
http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Coding_standardhttp://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Coding_standard

"Fix all compiler warnings. "

--Techwolf