net-wireless/hostapd without the debug USE flag adds "CONFIG_NO_STDOUT_DEBUG=y" to the configuration file. This disables ALL errors, including syntax errors in the configuration file. Additionally, I am completely unable to use hostapd without the debug USE flag because it terminates immediately after reading the configuration file (as seen with strace). It's not a syntax error with the configuration error, as hostapd[debug] works fine. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Build net-wireless/hostapd[-debug] 2. Use a configuration file with a syntax error (even /dev/null works) Actual Results: No error, hostapd exits immediately Expected Results: hostapd should give an error specifying what's wrong in the configuration file As I mentioned, I cannot use hostapd[-debug] at all but at least one other person could not reproduce the problem. Furthermore, Jouni Malinen (developer of hostapd) said this on the mailing list: Is that CONFIG_NO_STDOUT_DEBUG=y used as the default build option there? If so, it is very user unfriendly option and not really something I would recommend for a generic distribution. The only reason to add that entry is if you need to minimize the binary size for an embedded device with limited flash. If you want to debug anything (including configuration file errors or any problems setting up the interface), you do not want that build option.
Fixed in 2.0 ebuild. Thanks a lot for this report. Helped me to figure out wtf was that app doing.
