Another question, somewhat related: I saw a post re using "LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" in the make.conf file. However, the gentoo devs seem to go a little mad whenever they run into this idea, so I quit that practice. I'm a little unclear on a) what exactly that does and b) why it's harmful. The man page for ld just says that -O<greater than zero> "optimizes the output".
while it may work for some packages, when I made it global it started weird segfault problems later on. It got so bad that I couldn't get through one "emerge -Datuv world" without it bombing. Sometimes a re-emerge would work, but I always ran into some packages that just didn't like it.
In the end I removed the LDFLAGS and emerge'd system and world from an empty tree. System is very happy again.
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