On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 12:12 PM, Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote: > On Wed, 27 Jun 2012 09:58:57 -0400, Michael Mol wrote: > >> If you build glibc with CFLAGS="${CFLAGS} -g3", your glibc will be >> very, very broken. Apparently, it's old, known and has been a problem >> for about five years.[1] > > Thisd sounds worthy of a bug report, an ebuild allowing you to break > something as critical as glibc without even a warning does not sound good.
Take a look at my bugreport: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=423149 And then follow through to the bug report it was marked as a duplicate of. Gentoo devs, at least, know of the problem, but don't want to put a workaround in the ebuild for it. Also, even if the ebuild issued a warning, there's no guarantee the warning would ever be made visible; the system is well and truly hosed before the 'postinst' stage of the install, so who knows whether or not the cache-and-show-later warnings would reach the user? -- :wq