Jack Lloyd wrote: > I would think it would still be useful to have know, so the ebuild > could use filter-flags to prevent this problem from occuring for > others (if it is in fact a CFLAGS problem).
It might depend on the flag we're talking about, but filter-flags and replace-flags is mostly used for ebuilds that don't work with supported flags (like an ebuild that doesn't like -Os but needs -O2). There has been a debate a couple of weeks back if ebuilds should even filter -ffast-math as this is a flag that breaks dozens of packages, sometimes in sneaky, hard-to-debug ways, or if the ebuild should just die if it finds that flag. You're free to try, but the idea is that while you have a lot of choices when using Gentoo it is not the devs duty to stop you from making bad choices or protect you from their effects.
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