The duke3d ebuild contains patch 20030817-buildengine-makefile-cflags.patch which removes -funsigned-char from CFLAGS. This causes a number of "comparison is always true due to limited range of data type" compiler warnings during the build stage, and more seriously, results a number of in-game crashes. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start duke3d. 2. Begin a new game. 3. Attempt to look left or right using the quick look (default is the insert and delete keys). or 1. Start duke3d. 2. Begin a new game. 3. Find a security cam terminal, attempt to cycle completely through the cam views. or 1. Set the game resolution to 640x480 by editing ~/.duke3d/duke3d.cfg. 2. Start duke3d. 3. Attempt to start a new game. Actual Results: Duke3d crashes with a message such as: Fatal signal: Segmentation Fault (SDL Parachute Deployed) Expected Results: Not crash. Portage 2.0.49-r3 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r1, 2.4.20-gentoo-r5) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.20-gentoo-r5 i686 Celeron (Mendocino) ccache version 2.2 [enabled] ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=pentium2 -O3 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium2 -O3 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="sandbox autoaddcvs ccache" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 oss apm avi crypt cups encode foomaticdb gif jpeg libg++ mad mikmod mmx mpeg ncurses nls pdflib png quicktime spell truetype xml2 xmms xv zlib gtkhtml gdbm berkdb slang readline arts bonobo svga ggi tcltk guile ruby mysql X sdl gpm tcpd pam libwww ssl perl python esd imlib oggvorbis gnome gtk qt kde motif opengl mozilla cdr -3dnow ldap -alsa java aalib samba tiff tetex mozsvg mbox xface moznoirc moznomail apache2 gtk2 dga"
interesting, thats what that option does :x fixed the patch in cvs, thanks for the in depth bug that illustrated my lack of knowledge :)
