> On 25 Dec 2017, at 5:37 pm, Clemens Lang <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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.
Well yes, that is true. I was only talking though about the optimisation levels, -O<something>. Chris > > -- > Clemens
