Re: [gentoo-dev] Detecting ignored *FLAGS

["Rick \"Zero_Chaos\" Farina" <zerochaos@gentoo.org>]

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On 07/22/2012 08:44 PM, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote:
> Il 22/07/2012 14:38, Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina ha scritto:
>> It would seem to me that we could get all these QA warning out of the
>> way very quickly by adding -frecord-gcc-switches to the *FLAGS in the
>> base profile (it appears to be platform agnostic but if I'm wrong we can
>> add it for supported arches).
> 
> Ehm no that's not a good idea because it can actually cause problems.
> Some ebuilds do s/-O2/${CFLAGS} s/gcc/$(tc-getCC)/ (in this order) and
> then -frecord-gcc-switches will fail.
> 
> Other packages call ld directly, and then -frecord-gcc-switches in
> LDFLAGS will fail...
> 
Those are two very valid reasons why we can't add these to the profiles,
but do you have any suggestions on how we can get more than just
yourself running this QA?

Even something simply like detecting CFLAGS="-frecord-gcc-switches" set
but not FFLAGS and then teasing the user into fixing it would seem
worthwhile to me.
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