Re: Bug#877735: busybox: m68k build broken due to "-Os" in CFLAGS
On Thu, Oct 05, 2017 at 09:25:12AM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
>Hi!
>
>On 10/05/2017 01:16 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
>> Since busybox is very important to boot the system and get
>> debian-installer working, I would like to ask to have the
>> change from [1] reverted for m68k until we have fixed the
>> potential bug in gcc which most likely mis-compiled busybox.
>
>On second thought, I would actually recommended to revert this change
>for all architectures. Size isn't so much a constraint anymore these
>days, you reduce the binary by about 200k. I don't think this is worth
>the risk of breaking something as fundemantal as busybox.
I'd be more worried about the compiler breakage, to be honest. -Os is
meant to work!
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