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 1Fyr6O-000779-TQ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 07 Jul 2006 14:14:41 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k67EBKWN014920; Fri, 7 Jul 2006 14:11:20 GMT Received: from buggy.blubb.ch (cable-static-87-245-102-53.shinternet.ch [87.245.102.53]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k67E33ue020519 for ; Fri, 7 Jul 2006 14:03:03 GMT Received: from aqua ([192.168.10.5]) by buggy.blubb.ch with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1Fyqnj-00081F-AR for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 07 Jul 2006 15:55:23 +0200 Message-ID: <44AE6998.6090303@gentoo.org> Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2006 16:03:04 +0200 From: Simon Stelling User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (X11/20060605) 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 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Replacing cpu-feature USE flags References: <200607061252.33028@enterprise.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org> <200607062007.00422@enterprise.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org> <20060706192932.23ec087a@snowdrop.home> <200607062042.27919@enterprise.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org> <20060706200115.361256b4@snowdrop.home> <44AD6C60.9050406@gentoo.org> <44AE41C5.9000304@gentoo.org> <20060707154450.5a938644@sven.genone.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <20060707154450.5a938644@sven.genone.homeip.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: daaa902a-b74b-4b56-b077-57885740dd8b X-Archives-Hash: ba906d36eba99df8d0a7e604679bf371 Marius Mauch wrote: >> That's because CFLAGS="-msse" currently doesn't do what the user >> would think it does. Which is the real problem, which we're solving >> with the change Diego suggested. > > Huh? What do you assume users think that CFLAGS=-msse does? > I know some people get confused by the mmx/sse/whatever use flags, but > I've never seen anybody assuming that CFLAGS determine if a patch > should be applied/configure switch enabled. > (I'm not arguing about the proposal itself here, just this argument is > bullshit) Well, that was the best argument I could think of. I wasn't aware of the breakage in old compilers like