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From: Simon Stelling <blubb@g.o>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] About gcc 4.1.1
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 12:32:48
Message-Id: 44F6D682.9000703@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] About gcc 4.1.1 by "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr."
1 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
2 > Damn those pesky developers. ;)
3 >
4 > When will they learn the solution is not to mask out CFLAGS it's to produce
5 > a patch so the package works with the user's desired CFLAGS. :P
6
7 Oh, I'm sure the openoffice folks would be very glad to receive a patch
8 that fixes the issues with -O{0,1,3,s} from you.
9
10 Seriously, there are more pressing matters than CFLAGS horkage. It's
11 often simply not worth the time to fix these issues properly. Being able
12 to specify your own CFLAGS is a cool thing, but it's rather a
13 side-effect than a major goal.
14
15 --
16 Kind Regards,
17
18 Simon Stelling
19 Gentoo/AMD64 developer
20 --
21 gentoo-amd64@g.o mailing list

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Re: [gentoo-amd64] About gcc 4.1.1 Dieter Ries <clip2@×××.de>