On 31 Jul 2011, at 02:04, NightStrike wrote: > On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 10:22 PM, narke <narkewoody@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>> On 27 July 2011 14:36, Gary V. Vaughan <gary@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> because those are in the users' namespace. Instead, Makefile.am should >>> be setting required (but not compiler specific!!) options inside >>> AM_CPPFLAGS/AM_CFLAGS/AM_LDFLAGS/etc. The info manuals will help you > > How can you have compiler-generic options? It's not like POSIX says > that -O2 is for optimization, -g is for debug, and -D is for a > commandline define. > > Unless I'm completely wrong, and there is in fact some sort of > standard for compiler options other than "do whatever gcc does". For example: AM_CPPFLAGS = -I../gnulib -I../libltdl AM_LDFLAGS = -L../libltdl @LIBTHREAD@ As in things that need to be there for your project to build, even if the user passes flags of their own at make time. > Consider, though, using cl.exe in an msys environment. That uses / > instead of - for switches, for instance. I would be quite surprised if more that a very few Autotools using projects compiled in that environment out of the box. Cheers, -- Gary V. Vaughan (gary AT gnu DOT org) _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
