Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add gsegrafix and depdendent libraries.

[Ludovic Courtès]

John Darrington <address@hidden> skribis:

> On Sun, May 25, 2014 at 11:26:09PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>      John Darrington <address@hidden> skribis:
>      
>      >      > +   (arguments
>      >      > +    ;; The programmer kindly gives us a hook to turn off 
> deprecation warnings ...
>      >      > +    `(#:configure-flags 
> '("DISABLE_DEPRECATED_CFLAGS=-DGLIB_DISABLE_DEPRECATION_WARNINGS")
>      >      
>      >      Would passing CPPFLAGS=-DGLIB_DISABLE_DEPRECATION_WARNINGS as
>      >      #:configure-flags work?  If yes, that???s preferable to modifying
>      >      Makefile.in.
>      >      
>      > Unfortunately not.  This has been hardcoded in Makefile.am :(
>      
>      What is that that’s been hard-coded?  Normally, Automake-generated
>      makefiles honor the user’s CPPFLAGS environment/makefile variable.
>      
> Sure.  I can pass additional flags with CPPFLAGS.  But I cannot turn off
> ones which Makefile.am puts there.

Oh, and the problem is that Makefile.am does -DG_DISABLE_DEPRECATED,
which is exactly the opposite of what we want.  I see now.  So yes,
looks like it has to be done this way.

Ludo’.