Dear Bob, Many thanks for your response and sorry aobut the delay of mine. Bob Friesenhahn (2019/08/08 08:05 -0500): > On Thu, 8 Aug 2019, Sébastien Hinderer wrote: > > > Dear all, > > > > Are there some conventions about the properties a build system should > > have regarding certain standard build variables? > > > > For instance, regarding variables such as CC or CFLAGS, when they are > > passed to configure, should they be recorded somewhere so that a future > > invocation of make takes them into account? > > Yes, they should normally be recorded in the Makefile so that they are used > in the build. Okay. Still, I guess if make is invoked with a different value of CC it is then expected that this new value takes precedence over then one stored in the Makefile, right? Similarly, I kind of remember that if, say, make install is invoked with a different value of PREFIX that value must be taken into acocunt and that it is required that PREFIX can have different values during make and make isntall. I am wondering whether there is a document which specifies clearly for which variable this is expected to work that way and couldn't find anything relevant on the web site of the FSF. > If you use Automake in conjunction with Autoconf, this is > done automatically. Unfortunately, I don't. > Otherwise you need to make sure that the necessary > artifacts are in Makefile.in. I don't mind taking care of this, I am just unsure at the moment about what exactly is expected. Thanks again for your help, Sébastien. _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
