[gentoo-dev] Re: [PATCH] To enable ssp default in Gcc the toolchain.eclass need some changes.

[Ryan Hill]

On Thu, 9 Jan 2014 17:41:08 -0600
William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 12:30:04AM +0100, Andreas K. Huettel wrote:
> > Am Freitag, 10. Januar 2014, 00:26:03 schrieb Ryan Hill:
> > >
> > > > Please avoid "noblah" use flags.
> > > >
> > > > http://devmanual.gentoo.org/general-concepts/use-flags/
> > > >
> > > > ssp flag that defaults to on is fine.
> > >
> > > This flag already exists and has always worked this way.
> >
> > "already exists and has always worked this way" is not really a good
> > argument. The rest of the tree sticks to guidelines, so why not here?
>
> Agreed again. Saying that something has always worked a certain way in
> the past is not justification for keeping it working that way,
> especially when there are preferred ways of doing the same thing that
> are different.

Sure, I'm just pointing out that nothing is changing here.  It sounded like
people were objecting to the addition of a new no* flag.  I agree we should
change them once we can but that shouldn't block this patch.


> > > We don't have USE defaults yet.
> >
> > Now if you had said "we can't use USE defaults yet since current ebuilds
> > are still at EAPI=0"... that would have been slightly more informative. :)
> >
> > (Yes I've seen that there is work going on, and I think that's good. Being
> > careful when modernizing makes sense here of course.)
>
> Right, I thought someone had updated toolchain.eclass to use a modern
> eapi, but I hadn't seen any more on that in some time. What's the
> latest?

I did, but I can't start using new features until I bring all the ebuilds up to
a minimum EAPI.  I'm going to start that this weekend.



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