> > I would strongly advise against that, just on principle. > > yasm is an assembler, and as such it's right at the bottom of the stack. > It's not unreasonable for such a package to use different FLAGS etc as > it's not a userland app. It's an app that builds things you use to build > a userland. > > I would recommend you touch base with the package maintainer for answers. > > btw, why is this situation a problem? Is something wrong with the yasm > portage builds you? >
I'm trying to avoid a reinstall. With profile 17, i found many packages required -fPIC to build (probably due to some mucking around i've done with hardened, and/or gentoo devs earlier force on of PIE in gcc that they later backed out.). yasm build is failing and saying try -fPIC.
