On Monday 10 July 2006 15:20, Patrick McLean wrote: > Denis Dupeyron wrote: > > This, for me, triggers 3 questions that are gentoo-dev@ material : > > > > 1) Should all ebuilds that currently filter --fast-math die on its > > presence instead of filtering it ? > > I don't think we should die on anything, if a user wants a particular > CFLAG, generally the default should be to let them use it. A warning > with a pause may also suffice.
So what do we do for openoffice, which breaks when python was compiled with fast-math (probably breaking python's math functions). Do we really want to add filters for stupid flags? For me the choise has only two viable options. 1) Completely ignoring the flag; 2) Dieing when it occurs. I'm affraid that the usage of -ffast-math is that common that option 1 creates too many false bug reports. As such we choose to die on it to protect ourselves. It prevents us from diagnosing PEBKAC bugs manually. Paul -- Paul de Vrieze Gentoo Developer Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net
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