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: Fri, 07 Jul 2006 23:56:04
Message-Id: 200607071950.28503.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 Friday 07 July 2006 19:04, Harald van Dijk wrote:
2 > I hope this is specific enough: toolchain.eclass revision 1.234
3 > (separating ssp/... from vanilla) log message:
4 > "ssp/pie/htb have their own USE flags sep from vanilla, so people can
5 > utilize those"
6 > when in fact the old USE=vanilla behaviour is unavailable now. You have
7 > never (as far as I know) answered whether it was intended to keep the
8 > old behaviour as an option, and if it wasn't, why the log message is
9 > what it is.
10
11 well i cant answer it if you havent asked it ... me not answering you on irc
12 when i'm not around does not constitute being ignored and anyone who relies
13 on irc in this respect really needs to learn more about irc
14
15 the log message looks pretty clear to me, i dont see this "hidden message"
16 you're referring to
17
18 the ssp/pie/htb patches have their own USE flags so separating them from
19 USE=vanilla makes perfect sense ... now you can do:
20 gentoo patches + ssp
21 gentoo patches + nossp
22 vanilla + ssp
23 vanilla + nossp
24
25 whereas before you only had the option of:
26 gentoo patches + ssp
27 vanilla + nossp
28
29 like i said in my previous e-mail, forcing stubs onto people even when
30 USE=vanilla *is by design* because i got tired of people who had no clue
31 about the consequences throwing USE=vanilla into their USE in make.conf and
32 then complaining when the lack of SSP broke things ... this is also the
33 reason i havent added USE=vanilla to glibc, too many users would simply break
34 their boxes
35 -mike

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