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Date:      Sun, 3 Jul 2005 01:58:42 -0400
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Adam Weinberger <adamw@magnesium.net>
Cc:        ports@FreeBSD.org, current@FreeBSD.org, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Subject:   Re: HEADS UP: Ports are not ready for CFLAGS=-O2 in 6.0
Message-ID:  <20050703055842.GA1933@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <42C76DF0.8070307@magnesium.net>
References:  <20041102222000.GA65845@xor.obsecurity.org> <42C76DF0.8070307@magnesium.net>

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On Sat, Jul 02, 2005 at 09:47:44PM -0700, Adam Weinberger wrote:
> Kris Kennaway wrote:
> >About a week ago des changed the default value of CFLAGS to "-O2
> >-pipe" on FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT.  While this is believed to be safe for
> >compiling world + kernel on -CURRENT thesedays (because the aliasing
> >bugs that are exposed with -O2 have been fixed), it's definitely *not*
> >safe for compiling many ports (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).
> >
> >Therefore, if you compile ports on FreeBSD 6.0, you should set
> >CFLAGS=3D-O -pipe in your /etc/make.conf for now, until we can resolve
> >this problem more satisfactorily.
> >
> >Kris
>=20
> This is just an FYI for whomever cares: all GNOME metaports build=20
> cleanly in a -CURRENT jail with -O2.

This was a mail from last year, but thanks anyway :)

Kris

P.S. The problem is only if you build without -fno-strict-alias, which
is the default now.

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