Hi, On Mon, Dec 25, 2017 at 08:32:00AM +0000, Chris Jones wrote: > > Ports are free to override configure.optflags if desired. > > That’s not the same as simply letting the underlying package decide, > via its configure script or similar. That’s the point at which > upstream gets to say what they feel is best.
The software's default choice is not always a good choice. For example, some packages out there compile with -march=native by default, which will be a problem for packages built by our buildbots and distributed to users. -- Clemens
