On Sat, Aug 03, 2002 at 09:37:59PM +0200, Ove Kaaven wrote: > On Sat, 3 Aug 2002, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > > > e.g. > > > AC_PROG_CXX calls _AC_PROG_CXX_G which if successful unconditionally > > > appends > > > "-g" to the command line. > > > > Try passing CFLAGS to configure, e.g. CFLAGS="-O2" ./configure... > > And if that doesn't work, try CXXFLAGS (which applies to C++ code)... > although in some of my packages I've opted to override CXXFLAGS for the > subsequent make (make CXXFLAGS="...") rather than for the configure > (CXXFLAGS="..." ./configure), for some reason I can't remember.
Right, CXXFLAGS should be used in this case, and not CFLAGS. If you needed to set this variable at make time and not at configure time, this was probably a bug in the makefiles which should be fixed---with autoconf, the recommended method is passing to configure. -- - mdz
