408029 – sys-apps/vgabios-0.6c-r1 does not respect CFLAGS/CC

Bug 408029 - sys-apps/vgabios-0.6c-r1 does not respect CFLAGS/CC

Summary: sys-apps/vgabios-0.6c-r1 does not respect CFLAGS/CC

Status:	RESOLVED INVALID

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal (vote)
Assignee:	Doug Goldstein (RETIRED)

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Blocks:	407345
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Reported:	2012-03-13 13:01 UTC by Agostino Sarubbo
Modified:	2012-10-24 09:08 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev

2012-03-13 13:01:09 UTC

gcc -E -P vgabios.c  -DCIRRUS -DPCIBIOS  "-DVGABIOS_DATE=\"`date '+%d %b %Y'`\"" > _vgabios-cirrus_.c

Comment 1 Doug Goldstein (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2012-03-13 22:23:13 UTC

We discussed this didn't we? We're not going to respect your CC or CFLAGS since upstream says this builds bad binaries. GCC is only being used as a preprocessor since bcc's either doesn't support a pre-processor or its implementation is incomplete. Hence the inclusion of sys-devel/dev86.

Comment 2 Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev

2012-10-24 09:08:24 UTC

(In reply to comment #1)
> We discussed this didn't we? We're not going to respect your CC or CFLAGS
> since upstream says this builds bad binaries. GCC is only being used as a
> preprocessor since bcc's either doesn't support a pre-processor or its
> implementation is incomplete. Hence the inclusion of sys-devel/dev86.

If you can, please add a simply comment in the ebuild, to avoid future bug reports.