The ebuild changes the FLAGS, LFLAGS, etc before compile. This is nice, however it would seem that some braindame has occured: --- sed -e "s:^FLAGS\t=.*$:FLAGS\t= -Wall -D_POSIX -D_SYSV -D_SELECT -pipe # -I/usr/include/ncurses ${CFLAGS}:" \ (...) Makefile.orig > Makefile --- pay close attention and you will see that ${CFLAGS} are added after #, in other words - the flags are only added as a comment.. [:
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