Re: RFC for new FAQ entry: Flag Variables Ordering

2004-12-01 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello, On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 07:02:22AM -0800, Bruce Korb wrote: would make sense to add AM_LDADD as a synonym for LDADD purely for that sounds weird. I have an alternative proposal: Automake could watch for variables named AM_* and if it doesn't recognize them, it could issue a warning.

Re: RFC for new FAQ entry: Flag Variables Ordering

2004-11-30 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote on Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 01:49:07AM CET: There have been questions and even bug reports about this lately. So here is an attempt to document the difference between CFLAGS, AM_CFLAGS, and mumble_CFLAGS, how they are ordered, and how they should be (or not be) used.

Re: RFC for new FAQ entry: Flag Variables Ordering

2004-11-30 Thread Leonardo Boiko
Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote: This section attempts to answer all these questions. We will mostly discuss `CPPFLAGS' in our examples, but actually the answer holds for all the compile flags used in Automake: `CCASFLAGS', `CFLAGS', `CPPFLAGS', `CXXFLAGS', `FCFLAGS', `FFLAGS', `GCJFLAGS',

Re: RFC for new FAQ entry: Flag Variables Ordering

2004-11-30 Thread Bruce Korb
Leonardo Boiko wrote: Maybe you could add a small clarification: that LDADD and LIBADD are automake-specific variables. As far as I understand, there is a mumble_LDADD and a LDADD, but not an AM_LDADD, and plain LDADD is not from the user. Thus LDADD and LIBADD are entirely different from

RFC for new FAQ entry: Flag Variables Ordering

2004-11-29 Thread Alexandre Duret-Lutz
There have been questions and even bug reports about this lately. So here is an attempt to document the difference between CFLAGS, AM_CFLAGS, and mumble_CFLAGS, how they are ordered, and how they should be (or not be) used. Suggestions, clarifications, and corrections most welcome. 26.5 Flag