Genkernel: unrecognized option '-Wl,-O1' [Solved]

[DontPanic]

With the latest versions of genkernel (>=3.4.10), I've been having a problem with emerging the sys-kernel/linux-sabayon package with an error such as:

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ld: unrecognized option '-Wl,-O1'
ld: use the --help option for usage information
make[1]: *** [applets/built-in.o] Error 1
make: *** [applets] Error 2
make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....

I've found this is related to poor handling of the LDFLAGS setting in my make.conf.

LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" is supposed to be a fairly safe LDFLAGS setting (I thought), but it is causing a problem in the latest genkernel (see Gentoo bug report).

My solution is to emerge the sys-kernel/linux-sabayon package with LDFLAGS over-ridden from the command line:

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LDFLAGS="" emerge -av sys-kernel/linux-sabayon

Oddly enough, I don't get this problem when running genkernel directly from the command line, but only when invoking genkernel via emerging the kernel packages. I guess genkernel won't otherwise look at your make.conf.

If anybody else has come up with alternative solutions, please post them here.

[Fitzcarraldo]

Worth you adding it to the Wiki article http://wiki.sabayonlinux.org/index.php? ... _genkernel