Re: AC_INIT seems to be setting CXXFLAGS

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Sun, 26 Jul 2009, Richard Connon wrote:
> Hi. I'm trying to write a configure.ac script for a project I'm working
> on. At present it has AC_INIT at the beginning.
> It seems that running that macro is adding "-g -O2" to the CXXFLAGS
> variable. Is there anything I can do to stop this?

Standard practice is to run configure like

  ./configure CXXFLAGS=-O3

or

  env CXXFLAGS=-O3 ./configure

In both cases, configure will no longer insert its default CXXFLAGS 
value.

It is supposed to be up to the user (the person who builds the 
software) to determine which flags are used.

Bob
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