On Thu, Mar 24, 2022, at 11:13 AM, Nick Bowler wrote: > On 2022-03-23, Zack Weinberg <z...@owlfolio.org> wrote: >> ... before we change >> anything, we need to check what the rules *built into GNU and BSD >> Make* do with CFLAGS and CPPFLAGS (and also CXXFLAGS, OBJCFLAGS, etc) >> because those are much much harder to get changed than anything in >> Automake or Autoconf, so we should aim to harmonize everything with >> them. > > Practically all make implementations use the $(CFLAGS) $(CPPFLAGS) > ordering in their builtin .c.o inference rules. > > However, GNU coding standards state that CFLAGS should be the last > item on compilation commands, so it would appear that this is a case > where traditional "make" behaviour contrasts with GNU standards (which > Automake is following).
Huh. Is there a rationale given in the coding standard? If not, do you have any idea who might remember the rationale? zw
