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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: Andrew D Kirch <trelane@×××××××.net>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=232084
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 07:27:52
Message-Id: 200902240227.47612.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=232084 by Andrew D Kirch
1 On Tuesday 24 February 2009 00:57:25 Andrew D Kirch wrote:
2 > I was looking to do a workaround on a per compiler basis.
3 > I'm looking at toolchain-funcs.eclass, and specifically
4 > ${gcc-fullversion}. I've got a broken ebuild (dhcdbd) which requires
5 > -U_FORTIFY_SOURCE to compile correctly with GCC 4.3.3.
6
7 it's broken whenever fortify source is used, but gcc-4.3.3 is more of an issue
8 because it's on by default. however, this flag should not go in any dhcdbd
9 ebuild considering the fix posted by Magnus to that bug is clearly correct.
10
11 > But reading
12 > tells me that I should not use this eclass to set compiler settings
13 > directly. Will this work, and other than the merit of the fix is there
14 > a more desirable structure for such a solution?
15 >
16 > inherit flag-o-matic toolchain-funcs
17 >
18 > if [ "${gcc-fullversion}" -eq "4.3.3" ] #(or whatever the 4.3.3
19 > $gcc-fullversion} outputs)
20 > then
21 > append-flags -U_FORTIFY_SOURCE
22 > fi
23
24 i'll just address style/usage issues here rather than "is this change even
25 correct" ...
26
27 -eq is for numeric values, not strings. so you'd want:
28 [[ $(gcc-fullversion) == "4.3.3" ]] && append-cppflags -U_FORTIFY_SOURCE
29 -mike

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