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Re: grep 2.5: CFLAGS


From: Miles Bader
Subject: Re: grep 2.5: CFLAGS
Date: 16 Mar 2002 01:42:58 +0900

Tom Tromey <address@hidden> writes:
> I've seen this assertion before, and I don't think it is quite
> accurate.  Autoconf could have been modified so that, e.g., AC_PROG_CC
> would have noted that it referenced the CC, CFLAGS (etc) environment
> variables.  Things like AC_CHECK_PROG could do the same for $1.  So I
> don't see a real technical barrier to this.

Perhaps so, but it would involve lots of little changes in many places
(including any user code that reference special env variable), and I
suspect the result would be a lot more fragile than the current
solution.

Also, as you note, the new style looks nicer -- that's always good
enough for me... :-)

-Miles
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