Hi Assar,
On Tue, May 23, 2000 at 04:49:29AM +0200, Assar Westerlund wrote:
> Ossama Othman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Would it be worthwhile to add a "--enable-debug" and a
> > "--enable-optimize=level" set of configure script options?
>
> A problem with that is that it moves the responsability of keeping
> track of which compilers accept which options from the user to the
> macro. "-g -O2" is only the default when running with gcc. And I've
> no clue as to what would be the appropriate flags when using
> e.g. Visual C*. So I'm not sure it's worth the effort.
Yes, that is a good point. Thanks for pointing this out.
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> > There was mention of the CVS autoconf handling this differently. What
> > does it do?
>
> You can put variables at the configure command line like:
>
> configure CFLAGS=...
Ah okay, thanks for explaining the change.
-Ossama
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