profiles/arch/amd64/profile.bashrc contains several checks and filters that manipulate the user's C(XX)FLAGS. This is wrong for many reasons. To name some (in no particular order): * Inconsistent across profiles, only amd64 has it. * User should know asap if he has a typo in his C(XX)FLAGS. The filter issues a small warning at the beginning of the build that is easy to over look. * The user might use another compiler that understands this flag. * gcc might support a new flag that is filtered because it wasn't previously supported. * The checks can never be complete.
Just to clarify: those functions check if a flag is supported by current compiler and filter them out if they are not. That discards 3 last points of the above, with 2nd last point being inverted -- gcc might stop supporting given option and user never realizes. I do understand that killing that file might generate lots of duplicate bugs (as users had the possibility to insert typos for about 20 months), therefore I propose to change filtering into die()ing with a useful description of what went wrong.
AMD64: Could we please rip these out of here? It doesn't seem like a very good idea. Let me know and I'll take care of it.
(In reply to comment #2) > AMD64: Could we please rip these out of here? It doesn't seem like a very good > idea. Let me know and I'll take care of it. > Mark feel free to do it yourself since I do have other amd64 related things in my TODO list atm. Thanks
Got rid of the profile.bashrc entirely since that's all it did.
