Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: perl-module.eclass: respect CFLAGS, LDFLAGS - please review

[Kent Fredric]

On 23 June 2014 01:02, Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net> wrote:

>
> The usual conditional for that is USE=custom-cflags or a similar variant
> like custom-optimization.  See the firefox ebuilds, which use both.
>
> $ equery -N u firefox | grep custom
>  - - custom-cflags        : Build with user-specified CFLAGS (unsupported)
>  + + custom-optimization  : Fine-tune custom compiler optimizations (-Os,
> -O0, -O1, -O2, -O3)
>
>
> Generally, such USE flags are discouraged in gentoo, where honoring a
> user's CFLAGS, etc. and letting them keep the pieces if it comes to that
> is the norm.  Where upstream refuses to support custom cflags, however,
> the USE flag solution seems to be an accepted at maintainer discretion.



The problem with a USE flag here as such is the change this eclass makes
affects >900 packages in dev-perl/ , and its not easy to casually determine
which of those packages have any C bits where CFLAGS are even meaningful.

Which would mean having >900 packages with a new IUSE value that did
nothing for a majority of them.


-- 
Kent