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Date:      Sat, 02 Jul 2005 21:47:44 -0700
From:      Adam Weinberger <adamw@magnesium.net>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Cc:        ports@FreeBSD.org, current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: HEADS UP: Ports are not ready for CFLAGS=-O2 in 6.0
Message-ID:  <42C76DF0.8070307@magnesium.net>
In-Reply-To: <20041102222000.GA65845@xor.obsecurity.org>
References:  <20041102222000.GA65845@xor.obsecurity.org>

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Kris Kennaway wrote:
> About a week ago des changed the default value of CFLAGS to "-O2
> -pipe" on FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT.  While this is believed to be safe for
> compiling world + kernel on -CURRENT thesedays (because the aliasing
> bugs that are exposed with -O2 have been fixed), it's definitely *not*
> safe for compiling many ports (there are at least 350 ports that emit
> warnings about aliasing, and would probably have runtime errors when
> compiled with -O2; moreover, a number of ports fail to even build with
> -O2).
> 
> Therefore, if you compile ports on FreeBSD 6.0, you should set
> CFLAGS=-O -pipe in your /etc/make.conf for now, until we can resolve
> this problem more satisfactorily.
> 
> Kris

This is just an FYI for whomever cares: all GNOME metaports build 
cleanly in a -CURRENT jail with -O2.

# Adam


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