On Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 03:54:18PM +0100, Steve Kemp wrote: > If they are global defaults, a la Gentoo, perhaps a small shell script > would do the job: > > #!/bin/sh > # > # ~/bin/gcc - Give GCC global flags > # > /usr/bin/gcc `cat /etc/gcc-options.default` "$*" > > Obviously that's just a bare idea, a more complete solution would have > to look out for conflicting arguments, and work with G++ etc. > > That would give you the oppertunity to specify global flags for GCC > for all your builds.
If the idea were to support different compiler flags (which was not how I interpreted what has been said so far), then I think the most sensible thing would be simply to say that packages should honor the CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS variables set in the build environment. -- - mdz