On Wed, 11 Sep 2002, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > I disagree. Choosing the compiler options is exactly the job of the > installer, packager, or distributor.
If there is one, yes. > I don't think we're doing anyone a service if we spread wild speculations > about how risky certain compiler options are. If your compiler creates > broken code, don't use it. Packagers are expected to know about their > compiler. If they create broken packages and behave irresponsibly about > it they won't be making packages much longer. However, many users are not as knowledgable as packagers, but may still be compiling from source. For those people, I don't think it's unreasonable to say, "Use -O2 unless you know what you are doing." (I'm not sure we're actually disagreeing here, but I just wanted to make this point clear.) cjs -- Curt Sampson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +81 90 7737 2974 http://www.netbsd.org Don't you know, in this new Dark Age, we're all light. --XTC ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
