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Message-ID: <20151024193753.GS8645@brightrain.aerifal.cx>
Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2015 15:37:53 -0400
From: Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Having hard time adding to CFLAGS
On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 08:47:18AM +0200, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 7:16 AM, Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org> wrote:
> >> Currently, it is confusing. See for yourself:
> >>
> >>
> >> Usage: $0 [OPTION]... [VAR=VALUE]... [TARGET]
> >>
> >> To assign environment variables (e.g., CC, CFLAGS...), specify them as
> >> VAR=VALUE. See below for descriptions of some of the useful variables.
> >> ....
> >> ("ok, I got it. CFLAGS should go to configure's command line!")
> >> ....
> >> Some influential environment variables:
> >> CC C compiler command [detected]
> >> CFLAGS C compiler flags [-Os -pipe ...]
> >> CROSS_COMPILE prefix for cross compiler and tools [none]
> >> LIBCC compiler runtime library [detected]
> >>
> >> Use these variables to override the choices made by configure.
> >>
> >> ("What? You just said that CFLAGS should be on command line!
> >> Now you are saying it should be in the environment!
> >> What it is?")
> >
> > The behavior is the same as autoconf: they're accepted either as
> > environment variables or on the configure command line. Some users do:
> >
> > CFLAGS=... ./configure ...
> >
> > and others do:
> >
> > ./configure CFLAGS=... ...
>
> I tested both and they indeed work identically.
>
> > I can add some language to the help text to make it explicit that
> > either is accepted.
>
> I'm sending you a patch with amended --help text.
I'd like to continue discussion of whether the current behavior is
actually desirable. It's quite possible that we should move the
configure-generated CFLAGS to a separate variable where they're not
clobbered by setting of CFLAGS by the user at make time.
Rich
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