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Date:      Wed, 3 Nov 2004 01:04:59 +0100
From:      Michael Nottebrock <michaelnottebrock@gmx.net>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Cc:        Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com>
Subject:   Re: HEADS UP: Ports are not ready for CFLAGS=-O2 in 6.0
Message-ID:  <200411030105.00094.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net>
In-Reply-To: <200411021736.21034.kirk@strauser.com>
References:  <20041102222000.GA65845@xor.obsecurity.org> <200411021736.21034.kirk@strauser.com>

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On Wednesday, 3. November 2004 00:36, Kirk Strauser wrote:
> On Tuesday 02 November 2004 16:20, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > (there are at least 350 ports that emit warnings about aliasing, and
> > would probably have runtime errors when compiled with -O2; moreover, a
> > number of ports fail to even build with -O2).
>
> Out of curiosity, are those ports like to have equivalents in Gentoo's
> "portage" system?  Those guys love to build with -O310 -fomit-instructions
> but their stuff seems to pretty much work.  Why do we seem to have so many
> problems with (presumably?) the same software on our system?

Without having seen the list of affected ports yet, it certainly depends.

I don't expect things like apache, gnome, kde, perl or other big mainstream=
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applications to be affected (KDE for example is developed to use -O2 by=20
default - it's what you get if you run just configure without C*FLAGS set),=
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but there are a lot of ports in our collection which are old, x86-centric a=
nd=20
never liked any of gcc's 3.x releases very much.=20

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