Re: [PATCH 1/3] configure: Enforce gnu99 C language standard

[Leif Lindholm]

On Thu, Apr 02, 2020 at 19:08:21 +0200, Daniel Kiper wrote:
> > > -# Optimization flag.  Allow user to override.
> > > +if test "x$BUILD_CFLAGS" = x; then
> > > +  BUILD_CFLAGS='-std=gnu99'
> > > +fi
> > > +
> > > +if test "x$HOST_CFLAGS" = x; then
> > > +  HOST_CFLAGS='-std=gnu99'
> > > +fi
> > > +
> > >  if test "x$TARGET_CFLAGS" = x; then
> > > -  TARGET_CFLAGS="$TARGET_CFLAGS -Os"
> > > +  TARGET_CFLAGS='-Os -std=gnu99'
> > >  fi
> >
> > Do these not add -std=gnu99 only if *_CFLAGS are not specified?
> 
> Exactly...
> 
> > Would we not want to override these always?
> >
> > For example, Debian/Ubuntu override HOST_CFLAGS when building grub.
> 
> I was not sure about it. So, after some thinking I decided to give
> a user a chance to override C language type using *_CFLAGS. However,
> I am not so strongly tied to that. If you think we should add
> "-std=gnu99" unconditionally I am OK with that.

I think we should. As long as we permit overriding *_CFLAGS, and put
the user-provided flags last, that would still permit someone to
override the --std option witn an alternative one. (Works just like
the -O flags.)

/
    Leif