Every DocBook source document can be namespaced (DocBook 5) or
non-namespaced (DocBook 4). The set of XSL stylesheets used for
producing an output document can also be namespaced or non-namespaced.
Namespaced source documents should be used with namespaced stylesheets
and non-namespaced source documents should be used with non-namespaced
stylesheets. However, both stylesheet flavors contain processing rules
which allow them to be used interchangeably for any type of source
document.
Unfortunately, these processing rules became broken in version 1.79.1 of
the stylesheets, which means that non-namespaced source documents can no
longer be correctly transformed into man pages using namespaced
stylesheets and vice versa. This problem was fixed upstream [1], but no
released version of the XSL stylesheets contains that fix yet.
Back in 2016, this problem was reported as RT #43831 and allegedly fixed
in commit 1b8ce3b330. However, that fix
only helped for the non-namespaced version of the stylesheets - while
also breaking man page generation for the namespaced flavor.
Since using namespaced DocBook sources is the current best practice
(DocBook 5), make BIND DocBook sources namespaced again. When using
version 1.79.1 or 1.79.2 of the XSL stylesheets, care must be taken to
ensure namespaced stylesheets are used for generating BIND
documentation.
[1] https://github.com/docbook/xslt10-stylesheets/issues/109
Our vcxproj files set the WarningLevel to Level3, which is too verbose
for a code that needs to be portable. That basically leads to ignoring
all the errors that MSVC produces. This commits downgrades the
WarningLevel to Level1 and enables treating warnings as errors for
Release builds. For the Debug builds the WarningLevel got upgraded to
Level4, and treating warnings as errors is explicitly disabled.
We should eventually make the code clean of all MSVC warnings, but it's
a long way to go for Level4, so it's more reasonable to start at Level1.
For reference[1], these are the warning levels as described by MSVC
documentation:
* /W0 suppresses all warnings. It's equivalent to /w.
* /W1 displays level 1 (severe) warnings. /W1 is the default setting
in the command-line compiler.
* /W2 displays level 1 and level 2 (significant) warnings.
* /W3 displays level 1, level 2, and level 3 (production quality)
warnings. /W3 is the default setting in the IDE.
* /W4 displays level 1, level 2, and level 3 warnings, and all level 4
(informational) warnings that aren't off by default. We recommend
that you use this option to provide lint-like warnings. For a new
project, it may be best to use /W4 in all compilations. This option
helps ensure the fewest possible hard-to-find code defects.
* /Wall displays all warnings displayed by /W4 and all other warnings
that /W4 doesn't include — for example, warnings that are off by
default.
* /WX treats all compiler warnings as errors. For a new project, it
may be best to use /WX in all compilations; resolving all warnings
ensures the fewest possible hard-to-find code defects.
1. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/build/reference/compiler-option-warning-level?view=vs-2019
(cherry picked from commit 789d253e3d)