Hi Ralf > > Norbert Sendetzky wrote: > > > This works, but as soon as I move AM_CFLAGS to the Makefile.am in the > > > parent directory, they aren't set any more. Is this the way it was > > > intended and the only way to set them globally is to AC_SUBST them or > > > is there something wrong in my files? > > Besides the information Marc already gave you, what's wrong with > globally setting it by AC_SUBSTing? You can still override it per > Makefile.am. > > Note though that > -Wall -ansi -pedantic > > is pretty GCC specific, and will make many other compilers barf > heavily. So if your package targets portability, it'd be nice > to allow your users to override these flags (preferably by > ./configure CFLAGS='...').
How can I do this? According to the docs, AM_CFLAGS will be overwritten by package specific flags but not by flags provided by the user. Thanks Norbert -- OpenPGP public key http://www.linuxnetworks.de/norbert.pubkey.asc
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