On Sun, 13 Mar 2011 17:38:29 -0400 "Anthony G. Basile" <bluen...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On 03/13/2011 04:19 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > On Saturday, March 12, 2011 07:36:35 Paweł Hajdan, Jr. wrote: > >> I wonder why pax-utils.eclass uses elog instead of just einfo. An > >> example message looks like this: > >> > >> * Fallback PaX marking -m > >> * out/Release/chrome > >> > >> IMHO it's not very useful in the elog messages, but maybe there are > >> scenarios in which it is useful. > >> > >> My idea is to just replace all elogs with einfos in > >> pax-utils.eclass. What do you think? > > i think it depends on the person. for people who dont use > > grsec/PaX, they probably could care less and never see this > > output. for people who do, they probably do want to see this. > > > > maybe have it `elog` only when [[ $(uname -r) == *-grsec* ]] > > -mike > > blueness@yellowness ~ $ uname -r > 2.6.37-hardened-r5 > > so you need == *-hardened-* I'd suggest doing something like: use hardened && elog ... There's an argument that it's better to make decisions according to make.conf settings rather than the host system configuration, not least to cater for people doing cross-builds. Assuming cross builds work at all; I've not tried that for a long time. Kev.
