On Fri, 30 May 2008 15:07:43 -0700 Donnie Berkholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 22:53 Fri 30 May , Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > On Sat, 31 May 2008 00:47:44 +0300 > > Mart Raudsepp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The story that matters here is, that a C++ corner case that does > > > not work on 0.01% of packages with --as-needed and breaks on > > > non-ELF platforms, should not cause good things for our users to > > > be shot down. > > > > You could say the same thing for -ffast-math... > > When there's a feature that only breaks one package that we know of, > wouldn't it make more sense to enable it globally and add an > exception than to do it the other way around?
Both -ffast-math and --as-needed make the compiler / linker violate various standards in ways that can't be used safely unless a package has been explicitly designed to work with it. For packages that have been explicitly designed to work with either, upstream can add the options to the build system themselves. For packages that haven't, it's not Gentoo's place to try to guess whether upstream has designed their software with ricer flags in mind, and whether if it works by fluke now it'll still work in the next version. > I see that a number of packages in the tree explicitly filter > -ffast-math. That's mostly from the bad old days when users were encouraged to use silly CFLAGS... -- Ciaran McCreesh
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