On Mon, Jan 02, 2017 at 03:10:26PM +0100, Pavel Raiskup wrote: > On Monday, January 2, 2017 10:56:10 AM CET Florian Weimer wrote: > > The final values of CFLAGS/LDFLAGS/… are set (as shell variables) by the > > %configure macro. There is no other immediately obvious way to get > > those definitions. This means that if you can't use %configure for some > > reason, you are out of luck. > > > > In this situation, this still works: > > > > %global %_configure : > > %configure > > > > As a result, %configure tries to run “:” instead of “./configure”, which > > is a NOP, and only the shell variable initialization remains. > > > > Is this the recommend way to initialize the compiler flags? > > Meh, it would be hard to believe this is prefered way... at least because there > are default options like --prefix=/usr in %configure. > > > Should we introduce a %setup_cflags macro to make this more explicit? > > Maybe. > > Also I'd like to se the %configure macro more "modularized", because it does too > much ATM and as you said, %configure is not for everybody. So one could call > something like: > > %configure_libtool_hacks > %configure_fix_gnuconfig > > .. only when there are reasons to not call %configure directly. It would also be nice if: PYTHON=/usr/bin/python3 %configure didn't (silently) do the wrong thing by default. For a long time we shipped a nbdkit-python3 package which was using python2, and that was found to be the cause. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines. Boot with a live CD or over the network (PXE) and turn machines into KVM guests. http://libguestfs.org/virt-v2v _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
