Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2004 12:58:28 -0700 (PDT) From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: Charles Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> Cc: FreeBSD Ports <ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Best way to override user's CFLAGS in a port? Message-ID: <XFMail.20040907125828.jdp@polstra.com> In-Reply-To: <FEDC1A62-0106-11D9-A3E8-003065ABFD92@mac.com>
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On 07-Sep-2004 Charles Swiger wrote: > Users would prefer the software to build properly, so yes, doing > something to switch -Ox to plain -O is better than marking the port > BROKEN. > > I don't think that changing a specific flag in a port which needs to do > so is unreasonable, but I dislike the notion of second-guessing the > end-user. The whole point of preserving CFLAGS set in /etc/make.conf > or via the environment is to make it easy for people to build all of > the software using whatever flags they want. Agreed, but some user preferences (for example, "-g") are more important than others (such as optimization levels). > Can we help you fix the issues with ezm3 when compiled with -O2, rather > than figuring ways to hack CFLAGS...? In the long run, probably yes. At the moment I'm just trying to staunch the flow of bug reports for this thing. John
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