Mozilla shouldn't force -O2 optimisation on user

Joe Marcus Clarke marcus at FreeBSD.org
Mon Apr 14 12:40:14 PDT 2003


On Mon, 2003-04-14 at 15:21, Maxim Sobolev wrote:
> 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. ;-)

Okay, I can dig it.  I'll default it to off, but keep the option in the
Makefile.

Joe

> 
> -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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> > 
> > 
> 
-- 
Joe Marcus Clarke
FreeBSD GNOME Team	::	marcus at FreeBSD.org
http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome


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