Re: [Chicken-users] NURSERY environment variable considered harmful

[felix winkelmann]

On 7/15/06, Brandon J. Van Every <address@hidden> wrote:
> Is it really good policy to allow people to set a NURSERY environment
> variable to affect the build?  I'm really against cryptic ways of
> building stuff, like CHICKEN_HOME and NURSERY.  These things are
> forgotten, they affect stuff, they create bugs in people's error
> reportage, etc.  If it is important to allow custom configuration of
> NURSERY in the build, I propose a CMake OPTION for it, not an
> environment variable.  Let me know if there are important case uses of
> NURSERY for either Chicken or eggs, apart from the build.

AFAIK, there are none. Making it an option for CMake is a good idea.

Some more suggestions:

- make build type MinSizeRel the default
- with gcc the compiler options "-fomit-frame-pointer" is advisable with
 optimized build types (MinSizeRel, Release)
- with gcc "-fno-strict-aliasing" is preferred (any build type)


cheers,
felix