[MPlayer-dev-eng] Compiler warnings

[Clément Bœsch]

On Tue, Feb 01, 2011 at 04:54:42PM +0100, Ingo Brückl wrote:
> The MPlayer 1.0rc4 release note says:
> 
>   [...] A ton of compiler warnings disappeared [...]
> 
> This is great. Because warnings are a programmer's valuable help, there
> should be lots of compiler warning options activated and warnings should be
> clearly visible and thus become somehow annoying when the goal is to make a
> program compile totally free of warnings.
> 
> I like what was done with the kernel some time ago. All compiler instruction
> outputs were suppressed and replaced by appropriate short information. Now
> any warning could catch everbody's eyes even when not especially looking for
> them. In my little projects I do something like
> 

I was also wondering why this has been done on FFmpeg and not MPlayer.
Btw, you can also use colorgcc if you want to see them more.

> %.o: %.c
> 	@echo "  CC " $<
> 	@$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -c -o $@ $<
> 
> $(PROG): $(OBJS)
> 	@echo "  LD " $@
> 	@$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -o $@ $<
> 

I don't really like redefining builtins, but I don't know the build
system enough to have a word on it.

-- 
Clément B.