I'm not so sure that it doesn't. That is certainly well within the
capabilities of make itself...
Joost Kooij wrote:
>
> On Tue, 3 Mar 1998, joost witteveen wrote:
>
> [A very interesting and informative expose, thanks Joost!]
>
> As it works now (as I understand) the rules makefile effectively tries to
> make the build independent of the actual machine it is built on. Of course
> this is great for maintainers who create a binary for distribution.
>
> It would also be nice to have an easy way to rebuild a package as user and
> have the building optimized for the particular machine that the user has.
>
> If the rules file could take standard parameters like the cc to use,
> optimization flags to use, another architecture altogether than the
> machine on which is built etc., that would be a nifty thing to have.
>
> Oh well,
>
> Cheers,
>
> Joost
>
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