On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 5:16 PM, Tony Wetmore <tony.wetmore@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 12/20/2010 4:26 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: >> >> Some folks will remove $(USER_CFLAGS) since they have READ/WRITE to >> the makefile. They have been doing the same for years on Visual Studio >> projects*. > > Why would they do that, if USER_CFLAGS has no effect on them? If their > environment does not define the variable, their compiles would be > unaffected. The idea is that all programmers must use the defines. We can place the defines in USER_CFLAGS on all machines. It then becomes a question of how to retain the flags. > I don't know if Visual Studio has a similar capability to specify "local" > settings that augment or replace those specified by the project, or if all > developers are forced to use the same settings. Jeff
