The sed expression is wrong, any flags with '-g' in any position gets zapped, for example: -mfloat-gprs=double (for powerpc e500) -> -mfloatprs=double. Which gives build errors and is perfectly valid in real use scenarios to switch from e500v1 (single precision) code to e500v2 (double precision) code. Signed-off-by: Gustavo Zacarias diff -Nura flac-1.3.1.orig/configure flac-1.3.1/configure --- flac-1.3.1.orig/configure 2014-11-27 20:43:29.921303105 -0300 +++ flac-1.3.1/configure 2014-11-27 20:45:33.460250179 -0300 @@ -19870,11 +19870,10 @@ if test "x$debug" = xtrue; then CPPFLAGS="-DDEBUG $CPPFLAGS" - CFLAGS=$(echo "$CFLAGS" | sed 's/-g//') - CFLAGS="-g $CFLAGS" + CFLAGS=$(echo "-g $CFLAGS") else CPPFLAGS="-DNDEBUG $CPPFLAGS" - CFLAGS=$(echo "$CFLAGS" | sed 's/-O2//;s/-g//') + CFLAGS=$(echo "$CFLAGS" | sed 's/-O2//') CFLAGS="-O3 -funroll-loops $CFLAGS" fi