On Fri, Jul 06, 2018 at 11:11:10AM -0700, Andi Kleen wrote: > There are valid use cases to override the flags. I use it sometimes too, > and know some other people do to. > > But you need to know what you're doing. > > Perhaps a warning during build would be reasonable. So if you ask > for a build log you would see it.
In our case, the package is presumably passing LDFLAGS="" to override the LDFLAGS environment variable already set by the packaging system. This has worked for years without a problem. --Benjamin Gilbert