Curtis Napier wrote: > I could find a million threads in the forums supporting what Ciaran is > saying here. We have been told over and over and over until my head > feels bashed in that MMX/SSE, etc... are NOT TO BE PUT IN CFLAGS!! THAT > IS WHAT USE FLAGS ARE FOR!!!! > > Every developer who has ever commented on one of these threads has > always agreed with that. Put it in USE not CLFAGS.
That's because CFLAGS="-msse" currently doesn't do what the user would think it does. Which is the real problem, which we're solving with the change Diego suggested. > To change this behavior now after all this time would be crazy IMHO. It might have become some sort of policy, but if the policy doesn't have a god-like status. Sometimes it becomes obsolete and new (better) rules are put in place. -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
