Bug 70956 – QA notice in x11-libs/vte - is this a problem?

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE

[Description John Robinson 2004-11-12 05:12:36 UTC]

`emerge =x11-libs/vte-0.11.11-r1` produces a slightly worrying notice during the install phase:

strip:
   usr/bin/vte
   usr/lib/vte/iso8859mode
   usr/lib/vte/slowcat
   usr/lib/vte/nativeecho
   usr/lib/vte/vterdb
   usr/lib/vte/utf8echo
   usr/lib/vte/utf8mode
   usr/lib/vte/interpret
   usr/lib/libvte.so.4.4.0
   usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/gtk-2.0/vtemodule.so
   usr/libexec/gnome-pty-helper
making executable: /usr/lib/libvte.so.4.4.0
QA Notice: /usr/libexec/gnome-pty-helper is setXid, dynamically linked and using lazy bindings.
This combination is generally discouraged. Try: LDFLAGS='-Wl,-z,now' emerge vte
>>> Completed installing into /var/tmp/portage/vte-0.11.11-r1/image/

It's slightly worrying to me because I've no idea what it means, but does this matter? I wouldn't know what those LDFLAGS would do...

Reproducible: Always
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# emerge info
Portage 2.0.51-r3 (default-x86-2004.2, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1,
2.6.8-epia1-gentoo-r10-jr i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.8-epia1-gentoo-r10-jr i686 VIA Nehemiah
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.6
distcc 2.16 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [enabled]
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r5
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1
Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.14.90.0.8-r1
Headers:  sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.4.21-r1
Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r5
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O2 -Os -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER=""
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config
/usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref
/usr/share/config /var/bind /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O2 -Os -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache distcc distlocks sandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo
http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo
http://ftp.easynet.nl/mirror/gentoo http://gentoo.osuosl.org"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X aalib alsa apache2 apm atm avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bzlib cdr crypt cups
dbase dga directfb divx4linux doc dvd emacs encode f77 fbcon foomaticdb fortran
ftp gd gdbm gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 imagemagick imap imlib java jikes jpeg ldap
libg++ libwww lirc mad maildir mailwrapper mbox mhash mikmod mmap mmx motif
mozilla mpeg mysql ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcmcia pcre pdflib perl
php pic png pnp python qt quicktime readline ruby samba sasl sdl shared slang
spell sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd truetype unicode usb vhosts x86 xinerama xml xml2
xmms xosd xsl xv xvid zlib"

[Comment 1 foser (RETIRED) 2004-11-12 05:51:16 UTC]

yeah thats why such messages shouldn't be in portage, because without much reason it worries ppl who don't know what it means in the first place.

[Comment 2 John Robinson 2004-11-12 06:03:58 UTC]

Well, rather than portage not trying to spot potential issues, maybe ebuilds ought to be able to suppress the messages when these things are definitely not a problem.

[Comment 3 SpanKY 2004-11-15 23:22:58 UTC]

with set*id apps, the idea is that none of them fall under the 'def not a problem' category

[Comment 4 Leonardo Boshell (RETIRED) 2005-05-30 01:32:44 UTC]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 91617 ***