On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 1:04 PM, Nikos Chantziaras <rea...@arcor.de> wrote: > On 07/01/2010 11:00 PM, Ryan Hill wrote: >> >> [...] >> The way to control compiler flags in Gentoo is CFLAGS. > > That is true. However, there's a problem; you can control package options > of individual packages with USE flags, but you can't control compilation > switches of individual packages with CFLAGS. This will naturally make > people feel like using USE flags to modify compilation options is a good > idea.
If you use portage than you can control per-package CFLAGS using bashrc and /etc/portage/env or similar functionality. I am unsure if other package managers support this behavior or not. -A > > Surely, one has to sympathize with this mindset even though it's a wrong > thing to do. > > >
