HEADS UP: Ports are not ready for CFLAGS=-O2 in 6.0

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Tue Nov 2 15:46:20 PST 2004


On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 05:36:17PM -0600, 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?

Don't know, perhaps they don't care about the fraction of ports that
don't work properly since the rest of them have such eleet
optimization.

Kris
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