On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 10:44 AM, Diego Elio Pettenò <flamee...@flameeyes.eu> wrote: > On 09/12/2012 17:32, NightStrike wrote: >> It's not more fully documented elsewhere, though. AM_CPPFLAGS right >> about it is, however, fully documented right in this section. This >> should be fixed, since nowhere does the manual say that AM_CFLAGS is >> "-g -O2" by default. > > Is it? I was confident that AM_CFLAGS is unset by default, but CFLAGS > (from autoconf) is "-g -O2" by default. > > And no you shouldn't change CFLAGS in configure.ac, please. That's an > user-assignable variable, distributions cry every time that we have to > patch a CFLAGS="$something" in configure.ac. Especially when that's to > set/unset -O and -g flags depending on a debug/release build (hint: > distributions want debug information with optimized builds as well!).
Obviously I'm wrong about the default. All the more reason that it should be documented what the default is :)
