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From: Rafa Griman <rafagriman@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild (gawk) issues
Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 20:19:02
Message-Id: CANRt_=bqfqaDs3K1yDap_a-hA_Gsq+y_nn5KZbf2q_j20F3xag@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild (gawk) issues by Florian Philipp
1 On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 8:37 PM, Florian Philipp <lists@×××××××××××.net> wrote:
2 > Am 29.05.2012 23:37, schrieb Rafa Griman:
3 >> On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 11:09 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote:
4 >>> On Tue, 29 May 2012 22:56:07 +0200
5 >>> Rafa Griman <rafagriman@×××××.com> wrote:
6 >>>
7 >>>> Hi Vaeth :)
8 >>>>
9 >>>> On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 7:02 PM, Vaeth
10 >>>> <vaeth@××××××××××××××××××××××××.de> wrote:
11 >>>>> On Tue, 29 May 2012, Rafa Griman wrote:
12 >>>>>>
13 >>>>>> gawk: cmd. line:3: error: Unmatched [ or [^: /[^[:space:]]/
14 >>>>>
15 >>>>>
16 >>>>> Your gawk is broken. This happens if you emerged gawk with
17 >>>>> current gcc and aggressive FLAGS like -DNDEBUG or -flto.
18 >>>>> Not sure whether it is a bug of gawk or gcc.
19 >>>>
20 >>>>
21 >>>> So it seems to be the CFLAGS :( As I said in my previous e-mail, I was
22 >>>> "experimenting" a bit with them ... I'll be more conservative ;)
23 >>>
24 >>> Well, on the one hand the flags don;t seem to be too bad overall, but
25 >>> on the other hand there's the golden rule of Gentoo:
26 >>>
27 >>> Don't stuff around with CFLAGS
28 >>>
29 >>> Why not? Well, there's the ricer phenomenon where changed CFLAGS
30 >>> worsen performance and stability but the user's own bias convinces
31 >>> him/her that it's actually vastly improved.
32 >>
33 >>
34 >> I know that rule and tried not to be too agressive but seems I was O:)
35 >> Since it's not my min machine, I was going to experiment (nothing
36 >> "scientific", just curiosity) trying different options on different
37 >> partitions and see how they work out.
38 >>
39 >
40 > Out of curiosity: What flags do you run now? Do you know which flag
41 > exactly caused the problem? They didn't seem too experimental though
42 > -fno-inline looked odd.
43
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45 That one's it: -fno-inline. Removed it and now the error disappears.
46 revdep-rebuild runs well now.
47
48 Thanks all !!!
49
50 Rafa