Hi,
The autoconf manual describes CFLAGS like this:
"Variable: CFLAGS
Debugging and optimization options for the C compiler. If it is
not set in the environment when `configure' runs, the default
value is set when you call `AC_PROG_CC' (or empty if you don't).
`configure' uses this variable when compiling programs to test for
C features."
Based on this text, in a Makefile.in of mine, I use CFLAGS for .c to .o
compilation, but not for linking. Because debugging and optimization
flags are useless for linking.
But the GNU standards say:
"`CFLAGS' should be used in every invocation of the C compiler, both
those which do compilation and those which do linking."
Now it makes a difference. A user on Solaris/x86_64 tried to use
CC=cc CFLAGS=-xarch=amd64
and it didn't work with my Makefile.in. Is the user supposed to use such
setting? Or does he need to use
CC="cc -xarch=amd64"
?
Bruno
