Re: [Tinycc-devel] Changelog: call for update before release

[grischka]

Thomas Preud'homme wrote:
> With regards to the line CPPFLAGS = -I$(TOP) added in Makefile, if it's 
> necessary to compile, then there will be a problem whenever someone build with 
> make CPPFLAGS = foo as it will override CPPFLAGS. CPPFLAGS += doesn't work 
> either in that case. I thought about using override but then you need to use 
> override everytime you want to modify it. Since this line is the only one to 
> set the CPPFLAGS, maybe override can be used. What do you think?

Well, you could do

        COMPILE_FLAGS = -I$(TOP) $(CPPFLAGS) $(CFLAGS)

and then use "$(COMPILE_FLAGS)" instead of "$(CPPFLAGS) $(CFLAGS)" everywhere.

> I was enthousiast about releasing tomorrow or friday but if you think it's 
> best let's wait next wednesday. 

Sure.

> It'll give more time for people to show up and 
> tell what changes they forgot to put in the Changelog.

You're optimistic to assume people showing up now who did something maybe
two years (or even just two months) ago. ;)

--- grischka