Re: SOLVED - was Re: [gentoo-user] Serious problem with linode vm

[Neil Bothwick]

On Tue, 16 Apr 2013 13:18:51 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote:

> > It's unfortunate there's no tool to perform as revdep-rebuild, except
> > checking that, e.g. a package was built with the current CHOST or
> > CFLAGS set. The fact that I can run 'emerge --info $atomname' to get
> > the build environment for a given $atomname tells me the system has
> > enough information that this is possible. I simply don't know the
> > finer details of where all this information lurks. But if I had such
> > a tool, it would be of immense use to me while installing new
> > systems; no need to emerge -e @world...
>
> Check out /var/db/pkg/$CATEGORY/$PKGNAME/ -- there are text files
> containing CFLAGS, CHOST and many others. You or someone like you
> should be able to hack together a simple script to look for
> differences. :)

% source /etc/portage/make.conf
% for f in /var/db/pkg/*/*/CFLAGS           
[[ $(cat $f) == $CFLAGS ]] || echo $f

It does give quite a few hits though, because ebuilds can strip out
flags. Of course, that in itself may be an indication that you have
over-ricered your CFLAGS ;-)


-- 
Neil Bothwick

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