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Re: Second try at build system changes

From: Branko Čibej <brane_at_wandisco.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2012 19:40:03 +0100

On 21.12.2012 19:17, Philip Martin wrote:
> Branko Čibej <brane_at_wandisco.com> writes:
>
>> On 21.12.2012 18:30, Philip Martin wrote:
>>> Branko Čibej <brane_at_wandisco.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> Does "make EXTRA_CFLAGS=..." not give you exactly that?
>>> I want to set the flags at configure.
>> Sure, I understand that. But in order to do that, we'd have to introduce
>> another variable besides C(XX)FLAGS, because those override whatever
>> AC_PROG_CC would attempt to set, and always get used for bindings.
>>
>> Internally, configure already uses C(XX)USERFLAGS that could be
>> repurposed for that kind of use, or even C(XX)MAINTAINERFLAGS, which
>> have the right properties in that they're not used to compile swig
>> wrappers and such.
>>
>> Would that satisfy your requirements?
> I suppose I want to be able to specify an initial value for
> CMAINTAINERFLAGS:
>
> configure CMAINTAINERFLAGS=--something-special
>
> Then our code builds with --something-special, in addition to whatever
> configure chooses to add, while the generated code builds without my
> extra flag.
>
> I wouldn't hold up your branch for this, trunk doesn't support it
> either.

Sure. But this exact use is amazingly easy to support, given the
infrastructure already present on the branch. So I'll just make it work,
even without --maintainer-mode.

-- Brane

-- 
Branko Čibej
Director of Subversion | WANdisco | www.wandisco.com
Received on 2012-12-21 19:40:41 CET

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