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

[Michał Górny]

Dnia 2014-01-09, o godz. 18:59:26
Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> napisał(a):

> On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 5:29 PM, Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina
> <zerochaos@g.o> wrote:
> > I never felt manipulating cflags with use flags was a great idea, but in
> > this case is does feel extra pointless.
> >
>
> Tend to agree, though one place I could see it being hypothetically
> useful is if we need to set a use-dep.  That is, package bar might
> have a dep on dev-lib/libfoo[-ssp] (or nossp or whatever).
>
> However, what I don't know is whether that will be helpful.  If it is,
> then it might make sense to make an exception, otherwise I agree that
> overloading CFLAGS in USE flags is bad.

We're talking about the ssp (nossp) flag on gcc, not target ebuilds.
Ebuilds have to do stuff like '-fno-stack-protector'. The flag on gcc
rebuilds whole gcc just to change the global default.

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Best regards,
Michał Górny