%% Ossama Othman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
oo> Yes, indeed. I don't reset CXXFLAGS in the Makefile at all. What
oo> I would like is a way to disable the automatically selected "-g
oo> -O2" flags by some configure script options, rather than using the
oo> CXXFLAGS=whatever hack. Note that I'm not saying that CXXFLAGS is
oo> itself a hack. What I feel is a hack is the fact that it must be
oo> used to disable the "-g -O2" that autoconf adds to the compiler
oo> flags. Does this make any sense?
I understand what you're saying, but I disagree with your proposal. I
feel that adding options such as you propose is a very bad slippery
slope to go down, and much too complicated both to implement and to use.
Assigning values to CFLAGS is _MUCH_ simpler, more straightforward, and
flexible, IMO.
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