Re: Call for port reports

--On Saturday, October 25, 2003 10:14:14 -0400 Bruce Momjian
<pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> wrote:

> Larry Rosenman wrote:
>> >> After further consideration, I think that the recent patch series that
>> >> tried to centralize the CFLAGS handling in configure should be
>> >> reverted to configure.in revision 1.293.  Otherwise, it's much to
>> >> complicated to handle all the special cases.  There is, after all, a
>> >> reason we have been forced to keep it this way all these years.
>> >
>> > Remember the old code had CFLAGS="" in lots of platforms, meaning they
>> > got no optimization.
>> >
>> > It seems right now Alpha is our only problem, and it is really just a
>> > message problem because the later flags override the earlier ones.  Why
>> > can't get just remove -O2 from the alpha CFLAGS line via makefile
>> > magic? Frankly, we could just do CFLAGS="-O" and be done with it
>> > because we would not be bringing in the -O2, but I would rather keep
>> > it clean and remove just -O2.
>> We also get -g on UnixWare cc (NOT gcc) builds, which we didn't before,
>> which means we do NOT get optimization (UnixWare's cc doesn't like
>> -O and -g together).
>
> We are going to fix that, but what happens?  Does the compile fail or
> does optimization just get turned off?
just a warning on each compile and no optimization.

LER
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