On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 10:59 -0800, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:

> > I'll submit a patch for the new macro definitions. Comments are welcome
> > at anytime.
> 
> I definitely agree that '-fno-strict-aliasing' is something that should be 
> hardcoded into util-macros.  That makes the job of packagers much easier.  I 
> was thinking it would be fine to just hard code it into the ~10 packages that 
> had it >1yr ago, but if we want to be more conservative than that, 
> util-macros is the right place.
> 
> That will give me the ability to remove it easily in one location rather than 
> patching every single configure.ac while at the same time making it easy for 
> me to set it on xserver, pixman, cairo, mesa, and libX11 (and possibly a few 
> others from the list of ~10) by just setting CFLAGS at configure time.

Good point. I am considering strategies to override and to allow for
changes over time. We don't want to trade one problem for another.

> 
> Thanks for your efforts here and on cleaning up the build system in general, 
> Gaetan.

My pleasure. I really couldn't do it without the outstanding support I
continuously get. 

> 
> --Jeremy

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