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On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 09:56:43AM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: >So in a nutshell, because some packages change CFLAGS, and others change >CC, we require everyone to change their Makefiles ? > >I agree that overriding CC is bad - thats why it was changed to CFLAGS. >But CFLAGS is the standard way of changing the compiler behaviour - why >do the makefiles over ride that? And how common a practice is that? > >In fact, on second thought, packages that override CFLAGS just use the >low level interface >AC_PROG_CC_WIN32 >EXTRA_CFLAGS="$WIN32FLAGS" I'm sure that the autoconf maintainers have more experience with this than I, but IMO relying on overriding of CC and CFLAGS isn't the way to go. When I first started changing things, I thought I could use this technique but I think it is too fragile. cgf
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