Re: AC_INIT seems to be setting CXXFLAGS

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Thu, 30 Jul 2009, Paolo Bonzini wrote:

> > The terrible part about how this mechanism works is that it injects into
> > CXXFLAGS itself, which means that, without my configure script can't
> > override that via the setting of AM_CXXFLAGS.
>
> I cannot parse this sentence.  Can you explain?

He is saying that he is not able to override the C++ compiler 
compilation flags by using only Automake.

Most compilers evaluate arguments in left to right order, and will 
override previously set arguments, but this is not assured.

Bob
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