Re: [PATCH] tools/libbpf: add WERROR option

[Quentin Monnet]

2025-07-07 15:18 UTC+0200 ~ Daniel Borkmann <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> On 7/5/25 12:43 PM, Sam James wrote:
>> Check the 'WERROR' variable and suppress adding '-Werror' if WERROR=0.
>>
>> This mirrors what tools/perf and other directories in tools do to handle
>> -Werror rather than adding it unconditionally.
> 
> Could you also add to the commit desc why you need it? Are there particular
> warnings you specifically need to suppress when building under gentoo?


And if you need to disable the flag on a particular target, have you
considered using the existing variables and pass EXTRA_CFLAGS=-Wno-error
rather than adding another flag?

Quentin