Marius Mauch wrote: >> 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)
Well, that was the best argument I could think of. I wasn't aware of the breakage in old compilers like <gcc-3.3. -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
