[Fedora-packaging] Packaging/Guidelines - Usage of %{optflags}

[Ville Skyttä]

On Wed, 2006-08-23 at 09:38 -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-08-23 at 16:12 +0200, Till Maas wrote:
> > Hiyas,
> > 
> > at this time the Packaging-Guidelines do not mention whether or 
> > not %{optflags} should / must be used. They are used everytime %configure is 
> > executed, but there are also packages that do not have a ./configure script 
> > and for this reason would not use the %{optflags}. The flags in %{optflags} 
> > contain not only optimization but also security flags. For this reason I 
> > suggest that the Guidelines state that they have to be used. This will also 
> > help new contributors to know about this.
> 
> I believe this has been ratified and is waiting for Ville to write up
> and enter into the guidelines:
> 
> http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/GuidelinesTodo
> http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/IRCLog20060713

Thanks for the reminder, will take care of it in a jiffy.