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 1GV5s0-00027o-Mo for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 04 Oct 2006 12:29:05 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k94CSBUW019620; Wed, 4 Oct 2006 12:28:11 GMT Received: from v250.atcomputing.nl (at.customer.internl.net [217.149.194.10]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k94CQFPL014120 for ; Wed, 4 Oct 2006 12:26:15 GMT Received: from v250.atcomputing.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by v250.atcomputing.nl (8.13.7+Sun/8.13.7) with ESMTP id k94CPdik015107 for ; Wed, 4 Oct 2006 14:26:00 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (paul@localhost) by v250.atcomputing.nl (8.13.7+Sun/8.13.7/Submit) with ESMTP id k94CPJH7015104 for ; Wed, 4 Oct 2006 14:25:39 +0200 (CEST) X-Authentication-Warning: v250.atcomputing.nl: paul owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2006 14:25:19 +0200 (CEST) From: Paul de Vrieze X-X-Sender: paul@v250.atcomputing.nl To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] CFLAGS paragraph for the GWN In-Reply-To: <4522E633.6070601@bouton.name> Message-ID: References: <4521B54A.5010507@bouton.name> <20061003132656.79e67731@snowdrop.home> <4522E633.6070601@bouton.name> 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=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Archives-Salt: 29888271-4497-4fee-9cc7-9fca1c162e38 X-Archives-Hash: ab894def4bc11fb469e304d8f0baca25 > > Maybe it depends on what you mean by 'in control'. What I mean is that > you have a good stable base from which to work on, but nothing prevents > you to tweak things like you want: Gentoo doesn't get in your way. > http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/about.xml mentions "Extreme > Configurabiliy" and the main picture states "Larry the Cow was in > control. And he liked it.". > It certainly is, but if you do something against the developers advice there is a simple rule: If it breaks you get to keep the pieces. > > I agree (how could I say otherwise after spending several days with a > hole in my foot finally finding that I had a gun named fast-math in my > hand :-) ). > Apparently many developpers think that it might be in CFLAGS though (see > the amount of 'filter-flags -ffast-math' in ebuilds) so a reminder might > not be wasted for some users. Those ebuilds should be changed to die instead of filtering. -ffast-math is just stupid to enable globally. Paul -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list