Hi Paul,
On Mon, May 22, 2000 at 11:05:56PM -0400, Paul D. Smith wrote:
> %% Ossama Othman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> oo> Yes, indeed. I don't reset CXXFLAGS in the Makefile at all. What
> oo> I would like is a way to disable the automatically selected "-g
> oo> -O2" flags by some configure script options, rather than using the
> oo> CXXFLAGS=whatever hack. Note that I'm not saying that CXXFLAGS is
> oo> itself a hack. What I feel is a hack is the fact that it must be
> oo> used to disable the "-g -O2" that autoconf adds to the compiler
> oo> flags. Does this make any sense?
>
> I understand what you're saying, but I disagree with your proposal. I
> feel that adding options such as you propose is a very bad slippery
> slope to go down, and much too complicated both to implement and to use.
>
> Assigning values to CFLAGS is _MUCH_ simpler, more straightforward, and
> flexible, IMO.
I think you're right Paul. I just needed to discuss this stuff so
that I could better understand why things are the way they are.
Thanks alot for taking the time to discuss this issue!
-Ossama
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Ossama Othman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Distributed Object Computing Laboratory, Univ. of California at Irvine
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