Re: [gentoo-user] Again, emerge -e @world related questions...

[Corbin]

On 12/05/2017 02:45 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> On 12/05/2017 03:26 PM, Corbin wrote:
>> In "packages" that throw out the "CFLAGS / CXXFLAGS" values in the
>> end-users "make.conf" and substitute their own ... how will that be handled?
>>
> The GCC ebuilds all use toolchain.eclass which is incomprehensible to
> me, but it looks like the default behavior for gcc-6.x is to pass
> "--enable-default-pie" and "--enable-default-ssp" to the build process
> of GCC itself. That changes the default behavior of GCC to (as the names
> say) enable PIE and SSP by default.
>
> Consequently, if a package ignores your CFLAGS, the PIE/SSP should still
> take effect, because GCC does them by default. Only a package that adds
> its own -no-pie flag (for example) would cause problems.
>
A Master Override ... in other words.

Thank You.

Corbin