Maximum number of warnings allowed?

[Magnus Ihse Bursie]

On 2017-09-13 12:30, David Holmes wrote:
> On 13/09/2017 7:33 PM, David Holmes wrote:
>> I'm building with --disable-warnings-as-errors but the build still 
>> fails:
>>
>> 1 error
>> 100 warnings
>> CompileJavaModules.gmk:623: recipe for target 
>> '/export/users/dh198349/valhalla/valhalla-nestmates/build/linux-x64-open-debug/jdk/modules/java.datatransfer/_the.java.datatransfer_batch' 
>> failed
>> make[3]: *** 
>> [/export/users/dh198349/valhalla/valhalla-nestmates/build/linux-x64-open-debug/jdk/modules/java.datatransfer/_the.java.datatransfer_batch] 
>> Error 1
>> make/Main.gmk:198: recipe for target 'java.datatransfer-java' failed
>> make[2]: *** [java.datatransfer-java] Error 1
>>
>> Is there a maximum number of warnings allowed before it's considered 
>> an error? Could this be coming from (s)javac? (The warnings are Java 
>> related).
>
> I was told about -Xmaxwarns for javac and I bumped it to 1000 but it 
> didn't help much:
>
> 1 error
> 138 warnings
> ...
>
> I finally spotted this in the log:
>
> error: warnings found and -Werror specified
>
> From the make-support/failure-log I see -Werror in the javac command 
> line. Obviously it isn't adhering to --disable-warnings-as-errors! :(
We've stumbled across this before. It's obviously not what one would 
expect. Could you open a bug for it?

/Magnus