Hey folks, We're starting to see a lot of bugs over the last couple of months, directly or indirectly, caused by stupid use of CFLAGS and/or MAKEOPTS=-j2000 (or similar. ;)
Ladies and Gentlemen, have a gander of bug 74072[1], bug 91167[2] and bug 90973[3] for a few prime examples. Now, Gentoo is about choice (oops, did I just say that ? - the anti-choice brigade will be after my head now), and you can do what you please with your CFLAGS, MAKEOPTS, WANGNICENESS variables. But. When it comes to submitting bugs, you need to be a little conservative. Please. :) For example, if your a -funroll-every-single-possible-loop or -O9 kinda person, be sure to check that you can reproduce bugs with sane CFLAGS before reporting (where sane is more or less "-O2 -march=yourarch -fsome-safe-options-here", for example) please. Ditto if you have MAKEOPTS=-j321 in your /etc/make.conf, and your box only has _one_ processor. Just a friendly note. :) Best, Elfyn [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/74072 [2] http://bugs.gentoo.org/91167 [3] http://bugs.gentoo.org/90973 -- Elfyn McBratney http://beu.merseine.nu/ beu/irc.freenode.net http://dev.gentoo.org/~beu/ +------------O.o--------------------- http://dev.gentoo.org/~beu/pubkey.asc PGP Key ID: 0x69DF17AD PGP Key Fingerprint: DBD3 B756 ED58 B1B4 47B9 B3BD 8D41 E597 69DF 17AD
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