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

[Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>]

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

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