On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 12:29:23PM +0100, Christian Seiler wrote: > Hi Gianfranco, > > Thanks for taking care of this. > > On 12/22/2016 12:05 PM, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: [snip] > > why override dh_auto_build and dh_auto_install? > > probably exporting LDFLAGS and CFLAGS should work > > No, it won't, because I have to override the variables in the > Makefile. > > For a simple example, take the following Makefile: [snip] > > If one uses cmake or autoconf or similar, then environment variables > are sufficient. If the Makefile uses ?= to set the environment variables, > then as well. But since upstream's Makefile uses a plain and = for the > assignment of the environment variable, we need to override that > explicitly via an argument to make.
That's why I always add a patch to the Makefile that changes the "=" to "?=" and then send it upstream; so far the upstream authors have always accepted such trivial yet quite useful patches :) G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.net r...@freebsd.org p...@storpool.com PGP key: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint 2EE7 A7A5 17FC 124C F115 C354 651E EFB0 2527 DF13
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