Martin-Gilles Lavoie wrote: > At the strict minimum, I need to have the following flags set > in the generated makefile: > > CFLAGS = -c $(CPPFLAGS) -O3 -isysroot \ > /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk -arch i386 -arch ppc > LDFLAGS = -Wl,-syslibroot,/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk > > The problem is, whatever I set for LDFLAGS or CFLAGS in the .ac file > passed to autoconf, the output Makefile is invariably stripped down > to an empty LDFLAGS declaration and a CFLAGS devoid of the -isysroot > and -arch parameters. Well, firstly I wouldn't embed $(CPPFLAGS) within the CFLAGS definition; neither would I add the `-c' flag at this point -- both are better placed in the commands section of any rules in which they are required. Now, consider this trivial example: $ cat configure.ac AC_INIT pop_CFLAGS="$CFLAGS" pop_LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS" CFLAGS="" LDFLAGS="" AC_PROG_CC CFLAGS="$pop_CFLAGS" LDFLAGS="$pop_LDFLAGS" AC_CONFIG_FILES([Makefile]) AC_OUTPUT $ cat Makefile.in CFLAGS = @CFLAGS@ LDFLAGS = @LDFLAGS@ Note that your CFLAGS/LDFLAGS combination is invalid for my compiler; (I'm running GCC on Woe32). Thus, this example kludges them away, for the purpose of the AC_PROG_CC test, since they would cause it to fail, and `configure' would die. In your case, they *should* work within AC_PROG_CC, so the real example reduces to: $ cat configure.ac AC_INIT AC_PROG_CC AC_CONFIG_FILES([Makefile]) AC_OUTPUT Now, if I run: $ autoconf $ ./configure \ CFLAGS='-O3 -isysroot /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk -arch i386 -arch ppc'\ LDFLAGS='-Wl,-syslibroot,/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk' I see: checking for gcc... gcc checking for C compiler default output file name... a.exe checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking for suffix of executables... .exe checking for suffix of object files... o checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed configure: creating ./config.status config.status: creating Makefile and finally: $ cat makefile CFLAGS = -O3 -isysroot /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk -arch i386 -arch ppc LDFLAGS = -Wl,-syslibroot,/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk which seems to have the flags you require, propagated into the Makefile. HTH, Keith. _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf