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

[Brandon J. Van Every]

felix winkelmann wrote:
> 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.

Ok, will do.

> Some more suggestions:
>
> - make build type MinSizeRel the default

Why?  Personally, I can't abide a size vs. speed tradeoff.  Do you have 
proof that MinSizeRel is actually faster?  Otherwise, "Release" makes 
sense to me, if the tedium of changing the VC++ build configuration is 
too onerous.  (Must admit it bores me always having to do it.)

> - 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)

I'll do these.


Cheers,
Brandon Van Every