On Thu, 01 Jul 2010 23:04:10 +0300 Nikos Chantziaras <rea...@arcor.de> wrote:
> On 07/01/2010 11:00 PM, Ryan Hill wrote: > >[...] > > The way to control compiler flags in Gentoo is CFLAGS. > > That is true. However, there's a problem; you can control package > options of individual packages with USE flags, but you can't control > compilation switches of individual packages with CFLAGS. This will > naturally make people feel like using USE flags to modify compilation > options is a good idea. > > Surely, one has to sympathize with this mindset even though it's a wrong > thing to do. We've had per-package CFLAGS for quite a long time now. Maybe we need to advertise this a little more? There would certainly be a market for some util to manage all the per-package options that we have scattered around in different config files. -- fonts, gcc-porting, and it's all by design toolchain, wxwidgets to keep us from losing our minds @ gentoo.org EFFD 380E 047A 4B51 D2BD C64F 8AA8 8346 F9A4 0662
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