Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGs for kernel compilation

2015-04-30 Thread Adam Carter
On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 10:41 PM, Emanuele Rusconi ema...@gmail.com wrote: - I don't like invoking 'CFLAGS=-O2 -march=foomake' - I don't want to set CFLAGS as a persistent environment variable. Does the kernel building use the CFLAGS at all? You probably want CFLAGS_KERNEL and maybe

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGs for kernel compilation

2015-04-30 Thread Andrew Savchenko
On Wed, 29 Apr 2015 13:31:13 +0200 Ralf wrote: Hi, just a short question: I don't like genkernel, I always compile my kernel manually using menuconfig. So the CFLAGs of my make.conf won't get applied. What is the best way to (persistently) set the CFLAGs for the kernel compilation? -

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: wpa_supplicant cannot find crypto routines

2015-04-30 Thread Justin Findlay
On 04/29/2015 12:53 PM, Mick wrote: On Tuesday 28 Apr 2015 23:35:31 walt wrote: On 04/28/2015 09:59 AM, Justin Findlay wrote: I'm wondering if I have an unusual USE flags situation that is causing this In lieu of an informed opinion (which you've not been offered yet) I can say that I

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGs for kernel compilation

2015-04-30 Thread Andrew Savchenko
Hi, On Thu, 30 Apr 2015 18:26:22 +0200 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: That simple. The kernel is too important and the people programming it know what they are doing. Don't set anything. It is retarded. - I don't like invoking 'CFLAGS=-O2 -march=foomake' - I don't want to set CFLAGS as a

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGs for kernel compilation

2015-04-30 Thread Andrew Savchenko
On Thu, 30 Apr 2015 20:11:52 +0200 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am 30.04.2015 um 19:45 schrieb Andrew Savchenko: Hi, On Thu, 30 Apr 2015 18:26:22 +0200 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: That simple. The kernel is too important and the people programming it know what they are doing. Don't set

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGs for kernel compilation

2015-04-30 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 30.04.2015 um 19:45 schrieb Andrew Savchenko: Hi, On Thu, 30 Apr 2015 18:26:22 +0200 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: That simple. The kernel is too important and the people programming it know what they are doing. Don't set anything. It is retarded. - I don't like invoking 'CFLAGS=-O2

[gentoo-user] Re: CFLAGs for kernel compilation

2015-04-30 Thread Martin Vaeth
Andrew Savchenko birc...@gentoo.org wrote: That's why kernel makes sure that no floating point instructions sneaks in using CFLAGS, you may see a lot of -mno-${intrucion_set} flags when running make -V. So it should be sufficient that the kernel does not use float or double, shouldn't it? I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: wpa_supplicant cannot find crypto routines

2015-04-30 Thread Mick
On Thursday 30 Apr 2015 17:53:08 Justin Findlay wrote: On 04/29/2015 12:53 PM, Mick wrote: On Tuesday 28 Apr 2015 23:35:31 walt wrote: On 04/28/2015 09:59 AM, Justin Findlay wrote: I'm wondering if I have an unusual USE flags situation that is causing this In lieu of an informed

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGs for kernel compilation

2015-04-30 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 29.04.2015 um 13:31 schrieb Ralf: Hi, just a short question: I don't like genkernel, I always compile my kernel manually using menuconfig. So the CFLAGs of my make.conf won't get applied. as it should be. What is the best way to (persistently) set the CFLAGs for the kernel compilation?

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGs for kernel compilation

2015-04-30 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 29.04.2015 um 15:18 schrieb Ralf: Damn, you're absolutely right. I just tested it using make V=1. kernel make does override CFLAGs from the outside. But that's interesting: my processor supports -march=core-avx2 and none of the linux kernel processor family uses this flag... that does