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authorBen Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>2013-12-17 21:44:25 -0800
committerBen Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>2013-12-17 21:44:25 -0800
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INSTALL: Mention --enable-Werror.
I think that some developers haven't noticed this, but it's useful, so mention it. Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com> Acked-by: Jarno Rajahalme <jrajahalme@nicira.com>
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@@ -198,6 +198,11 @@ Prerequisites section, follow the procedure below to build.
% ./configure --with-linux=/path/to/linux KARCH=mips
+ If you plan to do much Open vSwitch development, you might want to
+ add --enable-Werror, which adds the -Werror option to the compiler
+ command line, turning warnings into errors. That makes it
+ impossible to miss warnings generated by the build.
+
The configure script accepts a number of other options and honors
additional environment variables. For a full list, invoke
configure with the --help option.