From owner-freebsd-arch Wed May 30 13:54:19 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [169.237.7.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2739A37B423 for ; Wed, 30 May 2001 13:54:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@nuxi.ucdavis.edu) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (root@[206.40.252.115]) by relay.nuxi.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f4UKsAl60897; Wed, 30 May 2001 13:54:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.11.3/8.11.1) id f4UKs9603648; Wed, 30 May 2001 13:54:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 13:54:09 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Peter Wemm Cc: Bruce Evans , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Overriding compiler flags (Re: cvs commit: src/contrib/gcc.295 gcc.c) Message-ID: <20010530135408.A3587@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20010530163906.27321380E@overcee.netplex.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010530163906.27321380E@overcee.netplex.com.au>; from peter@wemm.org on Wed, May 30, 2001 at 09:39:06AM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 09:39:06AM -0700, Peter Wemm wrote: > > I agree. It got ugly already :-). And we don't even install the specs > > file in /usr/libdata/gcc. > > Yes, because it just slows things down since gcc has to parse the file. > Maybe we should install /usr/libdata/gcc/specs.default or something? I have > found using the specs file *very* useful in the past when working on > toolchain issues. I personally don't want to install any specs. I want to keep things deterministic. When Peter uses specs I can be assured that any bug reports or "something is wrong" emails were tested with the stock case, or clearly identified as not being stock. I cannot depend on this from all users. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message