Re: debug builds with NO optimizations

[John Calcote]

My point exactly. The autoconf system should reserve a variable that is NOT the 
user. Automake has such a facility - AM_CFLAGS. This variable should be 
reserved for configure to add flags to the compiler command line based on 
higher-level, user-specified options, such as --enable-debug, or 
--with-full-optimization, etc.
 
John

>>> Andreas Schwab <address@hidden> 2/7/2006 11:34:30 am >>>
"John Calcote" <address@hidden> writes:

> When you override CFLAGS on the configure command line, you give
> configure the opportunity to add more flags to the CFLAGS variable that
> are then passed on to make.

Yes, there are many broken configure scripts out there that do that.
Please don't spread that further.  CFLAGS (as well all CPPFLAGS, CXXFLAGS,
etc.) should always be reserved for the user to override any time.  It it
highly annoying if that does not work.

Andreas.

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