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

[Kris Kennaway]

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=-O -pipe in your /etc/make.conf for now, until we can resolve
> >this problem more satisfactorily.
> >
> >Kris
> 
> This is just an FYI for whomever cares: all GNOME metaports build 
> 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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