Bug 261214 – net-print/cups-1.3* ignores user cflags and worse, tries to choose/force its own cflags

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Ryan Hope 2009-03-04 19:50:16 UTC]

CUPS thinks it knows better than its users and tries to force is own clflags which can cause the compile to fail, if the compile is successful the resulting binaries will segfault. On my x86 uclibc system, CUPS failes to compile.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. unpack 2008 uclibc stage3
2. emerge cups

Actual Results:  
compile fails because the mantohtml.c included in cups segfaults, if the makefiles are patched to use man2html the compile will succeed but then cupd will segfault

Expected Results:  
cups should respect user cflags and it should build completly as expected

[Comment 1 Ryan Hope 2009-03-04 19:51:06 UTC]

Created attachment 183922 [details, diff]
This patch removes cups' horrible optimization attemps

[Comment 2 Ryan Hope 2009-03-04 19:51:38 UTC]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Created an attachment (id=183922) [edit]
> This patch removes cups' horrible optimization attemps
> 

With this patch cups compiles and runs as expected on my uclibc system.

[Comment 3 Marat Radchenko 2009-03-06 17:19:20 UTC]

Confirming that problem described in this issue exists. I'm on armv6j-gentoo-linux-gnueabi.

[Comment 4 Ryan Hope 2009-03-16 22:57:17 UTC]

anything gonna happen with this... its been reassigned for well over a week now

[Comment 5 Timo Gurr (RETIRED) 2009-03-16 23:25:39 UTC]

Please open an upstream bug about this issue and link the URL here to get this further.

[Comment 6 Ryan Hope 2009-03-16 23:35:21 UTC]

Well since they are the ones who are overriding/changing the flags that we pass them thinking they know better I really doubt will will do anything about this if I opened a bug. I tried talking to a dev on IRC and that went no where...

[Comment 7 Ryan Hope 2009-03-17 17:29:54 UTC]

Ok I filed a bug report on CUPS's bugtracker.... Here is the link if you want to see it go nowhere -> http://www.cups.org:80/str.php?L3134+P0+S-2+C0+I0+E0+M20+Q

[Comment 8 Alexander 'E-Razor' Krause 2009-05-14 15:59:22 UTC]

Created attachment 191277 [details]
ebuild which allows custom cflags depending on use-flag

added a new USE-flag "usercflags" which applies the patch when active

[Comment 9 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2010-06-30 15:26:00 UTC]

Comment on attachment 191277 [details]
ebuild which allows custom cflags depending on use-flag

Please attach a unified diff next time. Also, with the cups ./configure script supporting --with-optim=..., which actually works in the 1.3 branch, I don't see a reason not to use that instead.

[Comment 10 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2010-06-30 15:31:29 UTC]

Fixed in 1.3-r*. 1.4* does not seem to suffer this issue, although it does ignore LDFLAGS (which is a matter for another bug).