Re: HEADS UP: Ports are not ready for CFLAGS=-O2 in 6.0

From: michael johnson <ahze_at_ahze.net>
Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2004 18:55:04 -0500
On Nov 2, 2004, at 6:48 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 05:36:17PM -0600, Kirk Strauser wrote:
>> On Tuesday 02 November 2004 16:20, Kris Kennaway wrote:
>>
>>> (there are at least 350 ports that emit warnings about aliasing, and  
>>> would
>>> probably have runtime errors when compiled with -O2; moreover, a  
>>> number of
>>> ports fail to even build with -O2).
>>
>> Out of curiosity, are those ports like to have equivalents in Gentoo's
>> "portage" system?  Those guys love to build with -O310  
>> -fomit-instructions
>> but their stuff seems to pretty much work.  Why do we seem to have so  
>> many
>> problems with (presumably?) the same software on our system?
>
> Don't know, perhaps they don't care about the fraction of ports that
> don't work properly since the rest of them have such eleet
> optimization.

Some ports from portage ie  
http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/media-libs/gst- 
plugins/gst-plugins-0.8.5-r1.ebuild gst-plugins use replace-flags which  
is for example ... ${CFLAGS:S/-O2/-O} or filter-flags which removes   
flags that cause
a known build failure.

Michael
> Kris
Received on Tue Nov 02 2004 - 22:55:38 UTC

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