Sérgio Durigan Júnior <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> My question is about the CFLAGS variable. What should be the standard
> behaviour when I provide my own CFLAGS (in this case, '-m64') for
> configure script? Should it override its own CFLAGS and use only mine,
> or should it append my CFLAGS to its CFLAGS, using a combination of
> both?

In general a configure script should never modify CFLAGS.  But flags
like -m64 that select a completely different ABI should better be put in
CC, not CFLAGS.

Andreas.

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