Re: [gentoo-dev] What to do with things like -fpie in CFLAGS in environment?

[Maurice van der Pot <griffon26@gentoo.org>]

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On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 01:52:05PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Tuesday 12 April 2005 11:59 am, Maurice van der Pot wrote:
> > I have the following situation:
> > - a package (valgrind) that can be compiled with PIE and uses PIE
> >   for some purpose or other if it is supported
> > - tests (make check) that cannot be compiled with PIE
> 
> allowing user specified tests for `make check` doesnt really make much sense 

'user specified tests'?? The tests are part of valgrind, they just can't
be compiled with PIE.

> and in fact it's probably a better idea to prevent user CFLAGS from being 
> used during `make check`

In theory, you're probably right. But would you really spend time on
disabling user CFLAGS for make check? How many ebuilds are doing this
right now anyway?

Maurice.

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