On 21.12.2012 19:17, Philip Martin wrote: > Branko Čibej <[email protected]> writes: > >> On 21.12.2012 18:30, Philip Martin wrote: >>> Branko Čibej <[email protected]> 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
