Another possible name would be COMPILERFLAGS I like it.
If "people" (Brandon?) think it's worthwhile, I could make up the patch to propose to rms. However, I realized that in practice it would conceivably be more useful to have the generic options after the compiler-specific options, even though that is not logical. The reason is that one of the principal reasons I bothered to write this was because it would be nice to be able to say make SOMEVAR=-g and get just debugging, no optimization, for all compilers. But if COMPILERFLAGS comes before CFLAGS, that won't be the result. Whereas if the new var comes after, then SOMEVAR="-g -OO" will do it. The strictly logical approach would be to put the default "-g -O2" (being generic options) into the new variable instead of the traditional CFLAGS, CXXFLAGS, etc. But I think that is too big a break with tradition and will surely mess up plenty of existing build processes. So I wouldn't want to go there. So maybe there is no hope and we are stuck with the status quo. Sigh. -k
