Re: Packages not honouring CFLAGS

[Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Thu, Aug 06, 2015 at 07:44:52PM +0200, Pierre Pronchery wrote:
> while testing both SSP and full ASLR support (building PIE executables)
> I realized that a number of packages do not apply CFLAGS as desired via
> pkgsrc. As a result, either SSP is not used when configured, or the
> package does not build at all (objects not suitable for PIE).
>
> Here is a list of some of the offenders:
> - archivers/zip
> - audio/nas
> - devel/deforaos-libsystem
> - devel/yasm
> - security/libgcrypt
> - security/libgpg-error
> - sysutils/deforaos-browser
> - sysutils/wmSMPmon
> - time/wmitime
> - x11/deforaos-libdesktop (like every deforaos- package probably)
> 
> Is this considered a bug?

Yes, this is a bug.

> If yes, I can provide a number of fixes for this issue.

Please do that!

Thanks,
 Thomas