IOhannes m zmölnig wrote: > however, afaict, CFLAGS and LDFLAGS are commonly meant to be settable by > the user, so setting those should not break the build system.
Exactly. Therefore a Makefile should *not* set CFLAGS, CXXFLAGS, LDFLAGS and the like, or only set them to some reasonable defaults which can be freely overridden by the user. Of course this means that build-specific options must be passed in the corresponding Makfile rules in addition to these variables. This is only a convention, of course, but it's part of the GNU Coding Standards [1] and supported by automake and other build and packaging utilities. Users and packagers have come to expect that it works that way, so it's a good idea to follow this rule if you want to make users happy. [1] http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Command-Variables.html Albert -- Dr. Albert Gr"af Dept. of Music-Informatics, University of Mainz, Germany Email: dr.gr...@t-online.de, a...@muwiinfa.geschichte.uni-mainz.de WWW: http://www.musikinformatik.uni-mainz.de/ag _______________________________________________ Pd-dev mailing list Pd-dev@iem.at http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-dev