On Friday 10 February 2006 01:26, Alec Warner wrote: > Assuming the CHOST variable is 'safe' is not a good thing, users can > over-ride this variable. Can you specify some behavior when it's set to > something bogus ( invalid form ) or something thats not in the mapping? Changing CHOST variable in something invalid for the current system is likely to kill everything that depends on CHOST and that currently means most of toolchain-funcs eclass, all the stuff depending on autotools (just a few packages, eh?) and every CHOST-based check.
Users can change CHOST, but if they do in the wrong way, they can do way more damage than just this. -- Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò - http://dev.gentoo.org/~flameeyes/ Gentoo/ALT lead, Gentoo/FreeBSD, Video, AMD64, Sound, PAM, KDE
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