diff -ru a/realpath-1.15-r2.ebuild b/realpath-1.15-r2.ebuild
--- a/realpath-1.15-r2.ebuild	2010-06-15 11:39:10.000000000 +0000
+++ b/realpath-1.15-r2.ebuild	2010-09-23 03:43:20.911397069 +0000
@@ -41,6 +41,8 @@
 	epatch "${FILESDIR}"/${PN}-1.14-build.patch
 	epatch "${FILESDIR}"/${PN}-1.14-no-po4a.patch
 	epatch "${FILESDIR}"/${P}-prefix.patch
+	# Respect user optimization
+	sed -i -e '/^  CFLAGS +=/d' common.mk || die
 	eprefixify common.mk
 }