Re: [SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] Just a heads-up, I think =sys-libs/glibc-2.14.1-r3 is a stinker.

[Michael Mol]

On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 12:12 PM, Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Jun 2012 09:58:57 -0400, Michael Mol wrote:
>
>> If you build glibc with CFLAGS="${CFLAGS} -g3", your glibc will be
>> very, very broken. Apparently, it's old, known and has been a problem
>> for about five years.[1]
>
> Thisd sounds worthy of a bug report, an ebuild allowing you to break
> something as critical as glibc without even a warning does not sound good.

Take a look at my bugreport: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=423149

And then follow through to the bug report it was marked as a duplicate
of. Gentoo devs, at least, know of the problem, but don't want to put
a workaround in the ebuild for it.

Also, even if the ebuild issued a warning, there's no guarantee the
warning would ever be made visible; the system is well and truly hosed
before the 'postinst' stage of the install, so who knows whether or
not the cache-and-show-later warnings would reach the user?

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:wq