18 Apr
2004
18 Apr
'04
9:57 p.m.
On Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 08:11:08PM +1000, Luke Yelavich wrote:
packages using automake should only set AM_CFLAGS, AM_INCLUDES, AM_LDFLAGS
etc. in Makefile.am. Resetting CFLAGS, INCLUDES, LDFLAGS etc. is a bug
(which I've also been guiltly of many times :)
so please report this to the authors, it's trivial to fix and usually
affects packaging, cross-compiling, and other strange environments ...
Conrad.
If a package's configure script doesn't recognize CFLAGS, it is a bug.
Report it as such.
The configure scripts do recognise CFLAGS, however the custom CFLAGS either
replace CFLAGS necessary for the package, or the package uses the same
flags with different parameters, eg -march and -mcpu flags.