On 29 Nov 2003, Paul Eggert wrote: > Matze Braun <matze@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > It would be alot more apropriate to let the user choose it's default flags > > in the configure.ac file. > > That's easy: just set CFLAGS. > > There's no universally-acceptable default. Generally speaking, the > old UNIX tradition (namely, no debugging and no optimization) is less > suitable these days than the autoconf default (debugging and a > reasonable level of optimization). Agreed. However, shouldn't Autoconf provide a means for the package maintainer to semi-intelligently set a CFLAGS default? Unfortunately, the option flags vary across Unix compilers so once you go beyond simple '-g' and '-O', it becomes necessary to test if the compiler accepts a given option. Bob ====================================== Bob Friesenhahn bfriesen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen
