On Tuesday, June 28, 2011 12:37:41 justin wrote: > On 6/28/11 6:23 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > On Tuesday, June 28, 2011 02:54:03 Michał Górny wrote: > >> I think that also a good idea may be to provide an Makefile example, > >> showing that often sed is unnecessary, and it's enough to do things > >> like: > >> > >> emake CC="$(tc-getCC)" CFLAGS="${CFLAGS}"... > > > > this is easily dangerous when it comes to packages (and many do) that > > append in the Makefile. specifying on the command line blocks those > > while passing via env works fine. i'm not sure it's appropriate to > > provide as an example. -mike > > There are cases and cases. You are right with what you said. But cases > where the makefile appends stuff are not the typical cases where a sed > is applied. Normally sed is used if upstream hardcodes FLAGS we don't > want.
and those packages should get patched and the patch sent upstream which means the sed+cmdline is still unnecessary. -mike
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