In the immortal words of Dave Nebinger: > > Is there some way to specify a gcc profile on a per-port basis, like the > > package.foo files in /etc/portage? I tried to google for it but I > > couldn't find anything. > > Nope. Would be difficult to implement as different folks would have > different gcc version(s) installed; how would the package know which one to > use? > > You can manually do this by calling gcc-config with the version to use > *before* the emerge and restore it *after* the emerge (as it sets the > system-wide default). This, too, would get to be rather sticky; > dependencies may or may not get compiled against the gcc version you > specified, and I can't begin to speculate what those problems would cause > (aside from general system instability). > > Perhaps, however, you're trying to come up with the wrong solution to a > specific problem... What are you trying to solve?
I'm trying to work around this http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43944 The other thing that's worked for me in the past in similar situations is to change the ebuild to strip the offending -pie flags, but that doesn't look like it will help in this case. > > > > -- > [email protected] mailing list -- "It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this." --Bertrand Russell. "The American empire is ideological, not territorial. We are the most ideological people in the world, and we are so united in our view that we don't understand there can be other views." --Lt. Gen. William Odom, ret. (Former Director of NSA). "Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love." --Charlie Brown "Let us endeavour to live our lives so that when we die even the undertaker will be sorry." --Mark Twain -- [email protected] mailing list
