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

[Jakub Moc]

Harald van Dijk wrote:
>> If the stubs were to be just removed say tomorrow, and breakage in the
>> tree is still of such an extend that bugs starts to flood in again, its
>> not just you that will have to read the mail.  If the user is clueless,
>> then Jakub have to reassign the bug to either toolchain or the package
>> maintainer.  If he could not determine it was due to the missing CFLAG,
>
> The error is very clear:
>  cc1: error: unrecognized command line option "-fno-stack-protector"
>
> Maybe I have a little bit more confidence in people, sorry if that's
> misplaced. :)

Erm, yeah I can recognize the error, but it's really not very productive
to dupe the bugs over and over again. Killing the stubs breaks glibc
compile [1] and it breaks perl compile [2] as well.

[1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101471
[2] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=106965

I don't really see how is this a good idea to break two pretty critical
packages for users that have no clue what USE=vanilla does w/ gcc.

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