Re: AC_INIT seems to be setting CXXFLAGS

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Eric Blake wrote on Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 10:57:57PM CET:
> According to Paolo Bonzini on 7/31/2009 1:09 AM:
> > That's okay.  Doing simply
> > 
> > : ${CXXFLAGS=""}
> > 
> > right after AC_INIT is fine.  So is setting CXXFLAGS to "-O1 -g" if your
> > program doesn't like being compiled at -O2.

> 2 weeks turned into 7 months.  Sorry for not replying to this thread
> sooner.  I like Paolo's suggestion of documenting that it is acceptable to
> change the default CXXFLAGS if the package author doesn't like autoconf's
> default, without penalizing the user's ability to specify better arguments
> than the package default.  How does this wording look?

OK to me, with the squash-in.

Cheers,
Ralf