On 12-03-19 at 09:42am, Andres Mejia wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 9:40 AM, Fabian Greffrath 
> <fab...@greffrath.com> wrote:
> > Am 19.03.2012 13:41, schrieb Andres Mejia:
> >
> >> x264 set -O3 by default. Us setting -O2 would have overridden that. 
> >> And with -g, x264 doesn't set -g by default (I presume because full 
> >> optimizations are enabled). Even so, x264 doesn't provide dbg 
> >> packages so there's no use in enabling -g anyway.
> >
> >
> > I see, so you re-set CFLAGS to get rid of certain flags that are 
> > enabled in Debian by default but that the source's build system 
> > should better take care of in these cases. Is this right also for 
> > the other packages where you introduced this change?

> Yes. In particular, I checked if the package's build system sets -O3
> instead of -O2.

Sounds like related to a previous misunderstanding I've had too:

In the past I got the impression that -O2 was sort-of mandatory in 
Debian - but have since learned that unusual optimization is fine (as 
long as it is sensible!), what is mandated by Policy is the ability to 
turn off optimizations.


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