I'm not sure I know what was being meant here for sure either but my
interpretation is that configuration items such as the CC and CFLAGS
Make variables (which are as I say unfortunately sometimes taken from
the environment) have the nature of being variables
This is starting to m
[ On Friday, September 15, 2000 at 16:29:04 (-0600), Richard Stallman wrote: ]
> Subject: [Autoconf] Re: HTML format documentation
>
> The GNU coding standards explicitly specifies the possible configure
> options. Whatever names we choose for new options, they will have to
> be given in the codi
> "Richard" == Richard Stallman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> XEmacs already uses --with-cc and --with-cflags, although I'd tend
> to go for the shorter --cc=sun-cc and --cflags=-O2. You'd also need
> --cxx and --cxx-flags; I'm not sure what other environment variables
> are similarly specia
