Re: Gentoo vs GNU toolchain (was Re: [gentoo-dev] Replacing cpu-feature USE flags)

[Mike Frysinger]

On Friday 07 July 2006 12:53, Harald van Dijk wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 04:00:09PM +0200, Kevin F. Quinn wrote:
> > If you take out the stub patches (which incidentally have no impact on
> > code generation), many builds will simply fail because they expect the
> > additional flags from ssp, htb etc to be there.
>
> That's the point. I mentioned being able to test whether your own
> software compiles with a pure GNU toolchain as a desire. Being able to
> see whether unofficial compiler options are used is not just a nice
> extra, but even necessary for that.

as i said, this really is a non-issue considering SSP has been integrated into 
mainline gcc

> > Again, if you don't gave GCC_SPECS defined in your environment then
> > that patch makes no difference to code generation.
>
> Yes, but if GCC_SPECS is defined in the environment

so what's stopping you from undefining it ?
-mike