I read notes in .../portage/profile/releases/17.0/package.use.force (pie) .../portage/profile/releases/17.0/package.use.mask (-pie) and to me they sound consistent, unfortunately I am NOT able to set the 'pie' use flag unless I comment out the "sys-devel/gcc pie" in package.use.force. This doesn't make too much sense to me, as I wish to build GCC with PIE, and the file names/notes seem to be consistent but not the behaviour of the use flag with respect to myself trying to set it, or it defaulting to on. under ../portage/sys-devel/gcc/metadata.xml the 'pie' flag reads as: <flag name="nopie">Disable PIE support (NOT FOR GENERAL USE)</flag> there is no regular "pie" flag declaration in the metadata.xml file, unlike the rest.
"nopie" is a local USE-Flag (for sys-devel/gcc and dev-lang/gnat-gpl) so the description comes in the package's metadata.xml. "pie" on the other hand is a global USE-Flag, descriptions can be found in profile/use.desc. gcc USE-Flags are set by toolchain.eclass, no IUSE in gcc ebuilds. For the problem: "emerge --info" and "emerge -pv gcc" (without your changes to profile files) would be great.
Portage 2.3.19 (python 3.5.4-final-0, default/linux/amd64/17.0, gcc-7.3.0, glibc-2.25-r9, 4.15.1-gentoo x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-4.15.1-gentoo-x86_64-Intel-R-_Xeon-R-_CPU_E5-2670_0_@_2.60GHz-with-gentoo-2.4.1 KiB Mem: 65975000 total, 58380364 free KiB Swap: 0 total, 0 free Timestamp of repository gentoo: Wed, 07 Feb 2018 21:00:01 +0000 Head commit of repository gentoo: 158975527e77a403c6b42f8fd771fcfcf59441fb sh bash 4.4_p12 ld GNU ld (Gentoo 2.29.1 p3) 2.29.1 app-shells/bash: 4.4_p12::gentoo dev-java/java-config: 2.2.0-r3::gentoo dev-lang/perl: 5.24.3::gentoo dev-lang/python: 2.7.14-r1::gentoo, 3.5.4-r1::gentoo dev-util/cmake: 3.9.6::gentoo dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.29.2::gentoo sys-apps/baselayout: 2.4.1-r2::gentoo sys-apps/openrc: 0.34.11::gentoo sys-apps/sandbox: 2.12::gentoo sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13::gentoo, 2.69-r4::gentoo sys-devel/automake: 1.11.6-r2::gentoo, 1.15.1-r1::gentoo sys-devel/binutils: 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----------------------------------------------------------------------------- These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies ... done! [ebuild N ~] dev-scheme/guile-2.2.3:12/2.2-1::gentoo USE="deprecated networking nls regex threads -debug -debug-malloc" 0 KiB [ebuild N ] sys-devel/autogen-5.18.4-r1::gentoo USE="-libopts -static-libs" 0 KiB [ebuild R ~] sys-devel/gcc-7.3.0:7.3.0::gentoo USE="cilk* cxx debug* doc* fortran go* graphite* mpx* (multilib) nls nptl objc* objc++* objc-gc* openmp pch pgo* (pie) regression-test* sanitize ssp vanilla* vtv (-altivec) (-awt) (-fixed-point) (-gcj) (-hardened) (-jit) (-libssp)" 0 KiB Total: 3 packages (2 new, 1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 KiB * IMPORTANT: 1 news items need reading for repository 'gentoo'. * Use eselect news read to view new items. \emerge -pv gcc 20.71s user 0.80s system 99% cpu 21.535 total
here is a pretend emerge gcc when I comment out the line in package.use.force These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies ... done! [ebuild N ~] dev-scheme/guile-2.2.3:12/2.2-1::gentoo USE="deprecated networking nls regex threads -debug -debug-malloc" 0 KiB [ebuild N ] sys-devel/autogen-5.18.4-r1::gentoo USE="-libopts -static-libs" 0 KiB [ebuild R ~] sys-devel/gcc-7.3.0:7.3.0::gentoo USE="cilk* cxx debug* doc* fortran go* graphite* mpx* (multilib) nls nptl objc* objc++* objc-gc* openmp pch pgo* pie regression-test* sanitize ssp vanilla* vtv (-altivec) (-awt) (-fixed-point) (-gcj) (-hardened) (-jit) (-libssp)" 0 KiB Total: 3 packages (2 new, 1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 KiB * IMPORTANT: 1 news items need reading for repository 'gentoo'. * Use eselect news read to view new items. \emerge -pv gcc 14.97s user 0.70s system 99% cpu 15.681 total
(In reply to ciaran from comment #2) > [ebuild R ~] sys-devel/gcc-7.3.0:7.3.0::gentoo USE="cilk* cxx debug* > doc* fortran go* graphite* mpx* (multilib) nls nptl objc* objc++* objc-gc* > openmp pch pgo* (pie) regression-test* sanitize ssp vanilla* vtv (-altivec) > (-awt) (-fixed-point) (-gcj) (-hardened) (-jit) (-libssp)" 0 KiB That's perfectly fine. From "man emerge" under "--verbose": () circumfix forced, masked, or removed (pie) indicates that the use flag is forced. You can't change it. Masked (and therefore disabled) use flags also show up in your output: altivec, awt, gcj, ...
You can also check if actual gcc enabled PIE by default: $ gcc -v 2>&1 | fgrep default-pie --enable-default-pie and $ gcc -E -dM -x c - </dev/null | egrep -i 'PIE|PIC' #define __pie__ 2 #define __PIE__ 2 #define __pic__ 2 #define __PIC__ 2
so why is portage saying it's not enabled but the package is configuring it anyways? Seems inconsistent.
because I am using equery...
(In reply to ciaran from comment #7) > because I am using equery... So equery says it is disabled? Then that's an equery (gentolkit) bug. Could you post the command you used and the output? Thx.
And "emerge -pv gentoolkit" also could be useful. [I use "app-portage/eix" for searching for and looking at specific packages and their useflags.]
Nevermind, here is a bug I found: https://bugs.gentoo.org/634824