conf/87895: defaults/make.conf incorrect advice about -O flag

Ari Maniatis ari at ish.com.au
Sun Oct 23 19:00:31 PDT 2005


>Number:         87895
>Category:       conf
>Synopsis:       defaults/make.conf incorrect advice about -O flag
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
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>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Oct 24 02:00:30 GMT 2005
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>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Ari Maniatis
>Release:        6.0RC1
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>Description:
              In /etc/defaults/make.conf, this text appears

# CFLAGS controls the compiler settings used when compiling C code.
# Note that optimization settings above -O (-O2, ...) are not recommended
# or supported for compiling the world or the kernel - please revert any
# nonstandard optimization settings to "-O" before submitting bug reports
# to the developers.

>From recent advice to the stable mailing list it appears that this is no longer true. -O2 is the default setting for compiling kernel/world.
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