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Nathan Chancellor
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Commit27758d8c25("kbuild: enable -Werror for hostprogs") unconditionally enabled -Werror for the compiler, assembler, and linker when building the host programs, as the build footprint of the host programs is small (thus risk of build failures from warnings are low) and that stage of the build may not have Kconfig values (thus CONFIG_WERROR could not be used as a precondition). While turning warnings into errors unconditionally happens in a few places within the kernel, it can be disruptive to people who may be building with newer compilers, such as while doing a bisect. While it is possible to avoid this behavior by passing HOSTCFLAGS=-w or HOSTCFLAGS=-Wno-error, it may not be the most intuitive for regular users not intimately familiar with Kbuild. Avoid being disruptive to the entire build by depending on the explicit opt-in of CONFIG_WERROR or W=e to enable -Werror and the like while building the host programs. While this means there is a small portion of the build that does not have -Werror enabled (namely scripts/kconfig/* and scripts/basic/fixdep), it is better than not having it altogether. Fixes:27758d8c25("kbuild: enable -Werror for hostprogs") Acked-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org> Reported-by: Askar Safin <safinaskar@gmail.com> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/20251005011100.1035272-1-safinaskar@gmail.com/ Reviewed-by: Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@linutronix.de> Tested-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org> # Rust Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251006-kbuild-hostprogs-werror-fix-v1-1-23cf1ffced5c@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.