Control Werror by converting to Wno-error (#30882)

Using `-Werror` is good practice for development and testing, but causes us a great
deal of heartburn supporting multiple compiler versions, especially as newer compiler
versions add warnings for released packages.  This PR adds support for suppressing
`-Werror` through spack's compiler wrappers.  There are currently three modes for
the `flags:keep_werror` setting:

* `none`: (default) cancel all `-Werror`, `-Werror=*` and `-Werror-*` flags by
  converting them to `-Wno-error[=]*` flags
* `specific`: preserve explicitly selected warnings as errors, such as
  `-Werror=format-truncation`, but reverse the blanket `-Werror`
* `all`: keeps all `-Werror` flags

These can be set globally in config.yaml, through the config command-line flags, or
overridden by a particular package (some packages use Werror as a proxy for determining
support for other compiler features).  We chose to use this approach because:

1. removing `-Werror` flags entirely broke *many* build systems, especially autoconf
   based ones, because of things like checking `-Werror=feature` and making the
   assumption that if that did not error other flags related to that feature would also work
2. Attempting to preserve `-Werror` in some phases but not others caused similar issues
3. The per-package setting came about because some packages, even with all these
   protections, still use `-Werror` unsafely.  Currently there are roughly 3 such packages
   known.
This commit is contained in:
Tom Scogland
2022-11-23 12:29:17 -08:00
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parent bf1b846f26
commit 0182603609
8 changed files with 184 additions and 1 deletions

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@@ -440,6 +440,47 @@ while [ $# -ne 0 ]; do
continue
fi
if [ -n "${SPACK_COMPILER_FLAGS_KEEP}" ] ; then
# NOTE: the eval is required to allow `|` alternatives inside the variable
eval "\
case \"\$1\" in
$SPACK_COMPILER_FLAGS_KEEP)
append other_args_list \"\$1\"
shift
continue
;;
esac
"
fi
# the replace list is a space-separated list of pipe-separated pairs,
# the first in each pair is the original prefix to be matched, the
# second is the replacement prefix
if [ -n "${SPACK_COMPILER_FLAGS_REPLACE}" ] ; then
for rep in ${SPACK_COMPILER_FLAGS_REPLACE} ; do
before=${rep%|*}
after=${rep#*|}
eval "\
stripped=\"\${1##$before}\"
"
if [ "$stripped" = "$1" ] ; then
continue
fi
replaced="$after$stripped"
# it matched, remove it
shift
if [ -z "$replaced" ] ; then
# completely removed, continue OUTER loop
continue 2
fi
# re-build argument list with replacement
set -- "$replaced" "$@"
done
fi
case "$1" in
-isystem*)
arg="${1#-isystem}"