Bug 190534

Summary:	sci-physics/cernlib-2006 completely ignores CFLAGS & FFLAGS on sparc and chooses very bad defaults.
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Ferris McCormick (RETIRED) <fmccor>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Science Physics related packages <sci-physics>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	sparc
Priority:	High
Version:	2006.1
Hardware:	Sparc
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	59506

Description Ferris McCormick (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-08-28 14:28:59 UTC

sci-physics/cernlib-2006 does build on sparc.  However, it ignores CFLAGS (and FFLAGS) from make.conf, substituting its own defaults.  For CFLAGS, it forces -O3 (in general, not a good idea) ignores -mcpu= from make.conf CFLAGS, and even sometimes FORCES -mcpu=v7.  This results in building the C portion for essentially an SS2 and quite suboptimal performance on any sparc system anyone is likely to have.

Fortran build is similar, although I did not notice any forced -mcpu=v7 flags.

Since it builds, I'm giving it ~sparc for testing, but it really should use my CFLAGS/FFLAGS, not what it thinks I need unless there is some compelling reason to do otherwise.  Please see Bug 59506 for an explanation.

Comment 1 Ferris McCormick (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-08-28 15:18:55 UTC

Add CC sparc.

Comment 2 Sébastien Fabbro (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-08-28 18:52:51 UTC

I will take a deeper look how to enforce users CFLAGS/FFLAGS as well as a decent src_test procedure. Useful for other arches anyway.

Comment 3 Sébastien Fabbro (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-09-03 15:58:12 UTC

just commited some cernlib fixes allowing user's flags and a src_test. Give it a try when you can. I will also propagate these changes in other cernlib packages (paw, geant, cernlib-montecarlo).

Comment 4 Ferris McCormick (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-09-17 13:57:37 UTC

(In reply to comment #3)
> just commited some cernlib fixes allowing user's flags and a src_test. Give it
> a try when you can. I will also propagate these changes in other cernlib
> packages (paw, geant, cernlib-montecarlo).
> 

That fixes the CFLAGS, thanks.  Also, it does run many tests now.  Apparently, it runs them successfully (at least, src_test does not take the "die" branch, and as far as I could tell from watching it run, everything reported success).

So far as I am concerned, this bug is fixed and you can close it.

Thanks for your help.