Mozilla shouldn't force -O2 optimisation on user

Fredrick Nilsson fredrick.nilsson at framfab.se
Tue Apr 15 00:33:18 PDT 2003


i got surprised by this in a positive way. so by all means, please keep it! 

.f

-----Original Message-----
From: Joe Marcus Clarke [mailto:marcus at FreeBSD.org]
Sent: Monday, April 14, 2003 21:13
To: Maxim Sobolev
Cc: FreeBSD GNOME Users
Subject: Re: Mozilla shouldn't force -O2 optimisation on user


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.

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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