Re: [gentoo-catalyst] Re: How to enable/disable FEATURES in spec files?

[Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 10:54 AM, Tom Stellard <tstellar@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 09:30:43AM -0400, Matt Turner wrote:
>> On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 8:54 PM, Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > I'm trying to build some new MIPS stages, and need to disable sandbox
>> > from FEATURES due to bug 45814.
>> >
>> > I've searched google and the catalyst source but don't see any way to
>> > disable an arbitrary FEATURE flag. I just hacked in a -sandbox and it
>> > works, but I'd like to think there's a better way.
>> >
>> > Also, since there are no recent MIPS-N32 stages, I just tar.bz2'd my
>> > installation and put it in the builds/ directory for use as the seed
>> > stage. It uses -march=sb1 in the make.conf, and the packages built by
>> > `catalyst -f file.spec` seem to be using this CFLAG (as shown by the
>> > file command, which reports that the binaries produced are MIPS64,
>> > instead of MIPS IV, as I've requested), even though I've specified
>> > CFLAGS in the spec file, and given it a proper subarch. Spec file is
>> > as follows
>> >
>> > ---
>> > subarch: mips4_n32
>> > version_stamp: 20100709
>> > target: stage3
>> > rel_type: default
>> > profile: default/linux/mips/10.0/n32
>> > snapshot: 20100907
>> > source_subpath: stage4-mips4_n32-sb1-20100907
>> > cflags: -O2 -march=mips4 -mabi=n32 -mplt -pipe
>> > cxxflags: -O2 -march=mips4 -mabi=n32 -mplt -pipe
>> > ldflags: -Wl,--as-needed
>> >
>> > makeopts: -j2
>> > ---
>> >
>> > What gives? I'm looking at mips.py, and it looks like it should be
>> > assigning CFLAGS given subarch = mips4_n32.
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Matt
>>
>> Ping?
>>
>
> I think you can do this in your catalystrc file.  Try something like:
> export FEATURES="-sandbox"
>
> -Tom

This works. Thanks Tom!