Ulrich Drepper wrote:
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Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> Change your package to use Fedora's flags.
That's certainly not the best answer.
Right, I could have been more detailed.
There are three types of compiler command line flags which come from
the
Fedora config:
- - general optimization
- - architecture selection
- - other code selection (like security options)
The latter two shouldn't be changed, they should be used as provided by
the build system.
Aurélien's package is likely subject to these 2 classes of
problems.
c.f. for how ppc build-attempts are choking on i386/x86_64 arch-flags.
But it is wrong to prevent a package from using different
optimization
options if it is obvious that the upstream optimization options have
been carefully chosen.
Theoretically not not much - In practice, quite a lot,
because
"carefully chosen" is hard to define and because "rarely used options"
may have unwanted/undesired side effects (e.g. triggering bugs in GCC,
breaking debug infos, introducing arch-deps, etc.)
In this particular review, I think it's an "overzealous" upstream
outsmarting themselves.
The options from the build system are in this
area only a good default.
Agreed, but diverging from them in most cases doesn't
make much sense.
Ralf