On Thursday 09 May 2013 11:24:27 Zack Weinberg wrote: > (That said, I've never been clear myself on why CFLAGS and CPPFLAGS > *are* separate, except possibly the now-long-obsolete historical > reason that some traditional preprocessors didn't accept arbitrary > compiler options.)
because there are C-specific flags (CFLAGS) and C++-specific flags (CXXFLAGS) and Fortran-specific flags (FFLAGS) and .... but they all use the same preprocessor (CPPFLAGS) -mike
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