Mozilla shouldn't force -O2 optimisation on user

Maxim Sobolev sobomax at portaone.com
Mon Apr 14 12:21:00 PDT 2003


On Mon, Apr 14, 2003 at 03:12:37PM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-04-14 at 15:09, Maxim Sobolev wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I think that every concept of "WITHOUT_OPTIMIZE" added in
> > rev.1.136 of ports/www/mozilla/Makefile is wrong. No port
> > should force optimisation level on user - we have CFLAGS
> > for this and each user should be able to select any
> > performance/stability ratio he wants.
> > 
> > IMO relevant part of 1.136 should be backed out, or possibly
> > turned into WITH_OPTIMIZED instead.
> 
> It took me a long time to turn this on.  Many people asked for it, and
> extensive tests showed it helped without any adverse affects.  I finally
> borrowed the concept from www/phoenix.

Tell them about CFLAGS in /etc/make.conf, or about make CFLAGS="-O100"
I bet they would be surprised. ;-)

-Maxim

> 
> I'm always open to change.  What say you all?  Should this be reverted? 
> Turned into WITH_MOZILLA_OPTIMIZE?
> 
> Joe
> 
> > 
> > Thanks!
> > 
> > -Maxim
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> Joe Marcus Clarke
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