Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 01:46:28PM -0400, Lukas Geyer wrote: > > I have just tried building it and noticed that the debian/rules file > > does not set CFLAGS or any other environment variables for the build, > > so it will take whatever default the user has. IMHO this is a bug, but > > people might disagree. I don't know if changing this in an NMU is > > neccessary but I would do it. > > I don't think this is a bug. Some people might even consider it a > feature to be able to set CFLAGS from their environment when building > the package locally.
OK, I can see that point. I tend to have a great bunch of debugging options in my CFLAGS, and I wanted to have the build not depending on this or some other random environment variables. If there is some need of having the build respect CFLAGS, CC etc., I would just use a wrapper which cleans the environment before building (like debuild does). However, I would rather have builds looking at variables in the DEB_* namespace, maybe something like DEB_CFLAGS, DEB_CC and the like. I can see no unambiguous recommendation in policy or developers reference, so I guess this is open for discussion. > At any rate I would avoid changing this in an NMU. OK, agreed. Lukas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
