John Calcote wrote: > My point exactly. The autoconf system should reserve a variable that is NOT the user. Automake has such a facility - AM_CFLAGS. This variable should be reserved for configure to add flags to the compiler command line based on higher-level, user-specified options, such as --enable-debug, or --with-full-optimization, etc. > There might be platform dependent conflicts between the default CFLAGS set by configure, and the AM_CFLAGS set in configure.ac, e.g. if the package has to provide a debug-only library (explicitly set via AM_CFLAGS=-g and AM_CPPFLAGS=-DDEBUG, for example), and configure insists upon keeping '-O2' as a default for your favourite compiler. Regards Harri _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
