>>>>> "John" == John Levon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
John> On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 12:30:12PM -0600, Andreas Pour wrote:
>> For SuSE 8.0, the compile is broken if you set CXXFLAGS in your
>> env. This is
John> IF you're fiddling with CXXFLAGS you should know what you're
John> doing.
Sorry John, but andreas is right. Here is what the GNU standards
texinfo file has to say
If there are C compiler options that *must* be used for proper
compilation of certain files, do not include them in `CFLAGS'. Users
expect to be able to specify `CFLAGS' freely themselves. Instead,
arrange to pass the necessary options to the C compiler independently
of `CFLAGS', by writing them explicitly in the compilation commands or
by defining an implicit rule, like this:
CFLAGS = -g
ALL_CFLAGS = -I. $(CFLAGS)
.c.o:
$(CC) -c $(CPPFLAGS) $(ALL_CFLAGS) $<
Do include the `-g' option in `CFLAGS', because that is not
*required* for proper compilation. You can consider it a default that
is only recommended. If the package is set up so that it is compiled
with GCC by default, then you might as well include `-O' in the default
value of `CFLAGS' as well.
And I think this completely makes sense. I don't know what other
variable we could use for this, though.
JMarc
