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Re: Question about CFLAGS
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Paul Smith |
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Re: Question about CFLAGS |
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Wed, 16 Apr 2008 12:59:11 -0400 |
On Wed, 2008-04-16 at 13:51 -0300, Sérgio Durigan Júnior wrote:
> Yes, it is a bug. What we want to know is if we should append $CFLAGS
> to $BASECFLAGS (i.e., BASECFLAGS="$BASECFLAGS @CFLAGS@") or use *only*
> $CFLAGS when the user provides it.
By convention and practice, the former (CFLAGS are ADDED TO the normal
set of flags). Presumably any flags in BASECFLAGS are _needed_ to get
the compilation to work, so overwriting them would make setting CFLAGS
on the make command line not very useful... or at least difficult to
use.
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