-mieee on Alpha

[Dag-ErlingSmørgrav]

Rob <rbyrnes at ozemail.com.au> writes:
> Where is -mieee specified when building applications from ports or
> when building world?  I wa under the impression that it was in
> /usr/share/mk/bsd.cpu.mk and /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk, but I can't
> see it.

It is set in bsd.cpu.mk for the alpha case.  Unfortunately, it is not
set in the NOCPUCFLAGS case, which is a bug (NOCPUCFLAGS is intended
to give a safe set of flags, removind -mieee is definitely not safe)

> Also, looking back throught the archives, there doesn't appear to eb a
> way to turn it off (if one should so desire), is this correct?

You don't want it off.  Your system will stop working after the next
'make world'.

DES
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