On Fri, 07 Jul 2006 13:13:09 +0200 Simon Stelling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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. Huh? What do you assume users think that CFLAGS=-msse does? I know some people get confused by the mmx/sse/whatever use flags, but I've never seen anybody assuming that CFLAGS determine if a patch should be applied/configure switch enabled. (I'm not arguing about the proposal itself here, just this argument is bullshit) Marius -- Public Key at http://www.genone.de/info/gpg-key.pub In the beginning, there was nothing. And God said, 'Let there be Light.' And there was still nothing, but you could see a bit better.
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