On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, Harald Dunkel wrote:
So the user has to writemake CFLAGS= CXXFLAGS= install to get the default flags (AM_CXXFLAGS, etc.) provided by the developer? Sorry, but this is weird. Are there any other flags the user has to reset to get the flags specified by the developer? Actually the developer doesn't know, because maybe the next version of autoconf redefines even more variables that he thought he had set savely in his Makefile.am. And surely the user doesn't know, either.
In my experience, the package developer is often the least qualified to judge compiler flags. It is very rare that specific flags are necessary for a package to work correctly. It is far more common that the package developer enforces flags which don't work at all with the installer's compiler and cause a complete failure.
Bob ====================================== Bob Friesenhahn [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/
