From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Fyb3C-00008d-30 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 06 Jul 2006 21:06:18 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k66L3uvS014423; Thu, 6 Jul 2006 21:03:56 GMT Received: from smtp-out2.blueyonder.co.uk (smtp-out2.blueyonder.co.uk [195.188.213.5]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k66KwxYZ024577 for ; Thu, 6 Jul 2006 20:58:59 GMT Received: from [172.23.170.142] (helo=anti-virus02-09) by smtp-out2.blueyonder.co.uk with smtp (Exim 4.52) id 1Fyaw7-0002Td-NQ for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 06 Jul 2006 21:58:59 +0100 Received: from [82.41.57.20] (helo=snowdrop.home) by asmtp-out5.blueyonder.co.uk with esmtpa (Exim 4.52) id 1Fyaw7-00068w-7C for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 06 Jul 2006 21:58:59 +0100 Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2006 21:58:56 +0100 From: Ciaran McCreesh To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Replacing cpu-feature USE flags Message-ID: <20060706215856.64d8d6c2@snowdrop.home> In-Reply-To: <200607062246.31954@enterprise.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org> References: <200607061252.33028@enterprise.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org> <200607062213.21267@enterprise.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org> <20060706212425.722c6a3b@snowdrop.home> <200607062246.31954@enterprise.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.3.1 (GTK+ 2.8.19; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id k66L3uxH014423 X-Archives-Salt: 35d89580-c542-4e06-9ace-aba466810185 X-Archives-Hash: c624defc5fab4b3e3414e3257056845d On Thu, 6 Jul 2006 22:46:31 +0200 "Diego 'Flameeyes' Petten=C3=B2" wrote: | On Thursday 06 July 2006 22:24, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | > Well, if you're playing that game, I'd suggest that anybody wanting | > to make proposals on this issue should know what CFLAGS is and | > understand how it is nothing other than a set of flags that are | > passed to the compiler when compiling a C program, and then | > evaluate the impact of subverting such a variable for nefarious | > purposes. | | And I suggest that anybody willing to comment on user-side of things | would know what an user is and understand how users feel about | issues, instead of going on and on and on commenting without having a | clue. You're not going to give in gracefully, huh? Ok, I'd like to ask the council to declare that abusing CFLAGS in the manner proposed in this thread is a very bad idea. --=20 Ciaran McCreesh Mail : ciaran dot mccreesh at blueyonder.co.uk --=20 gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list