Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: Gentoo vs GNU toolchain (was Re: [gentoo-dev] Replacing cpu-feature USE flags)
Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2006 13:58:24
Message-Id: 200607080951.54750.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: Gentoo vs GNU toolchain (was Re: [gentoo-dev] Replacing cpu-feature USE flags) by "Harald van Dijk"
1 On Saturday 08 July 2006 02:20, Harald van Dijk wrote:
2 > I also mentioned it in a bugzilla comment, though admittedly not as a
3 > question there. (The gcc 2 bug, I think.) Bugzilla comments are safe to
4 > assume read, right?
5
6 the gcc2 bug has a lot of things in there i need to review/merge so it's in
7 my "little" TODO box
8
9 > > like i said in my previous e-mail, forcing stubs onto people even when
10 > > USE=vanilla *is by design* because i got tired of people who had no clue
11 > > about the consequences throwing USE=vanilla into their USE in make.conf
12 > > and then complaining when the lack of SSP broke things ...
13 >
14 > But I'm not asking for USE="vanilla" to disable SSP completely, I'm only
15 > asking for USE="vanilla nossp" to disable it. "nossp" is already
16 > explicitly documented as "NOT FOR GENERAL USE", too.
17
18 well, vanilla is marked the same way, yet people use it ;)
19
20 but as i said, i'll add 'use vanilla || apply_stub' logic once 4.1.x goes
21 stable, just no sooner
22 -mike