On Fri, 2004-04-16 at 20:53, Luke Yelavich wrote: > Hi all > I am busy packaging software for Slackware and trying to compile for a > specific architecture. The one problem I am finding with several packages, > is that the configure scripts obtain the architecture of the host system, > and ignore the CFLAGS variable set that contains arguments for the compiler > to compile for a specific architecture. > > I am wondering whether anybody has some work-work-arounds that might work > on all packages, or could developers possibly provide a configure > command-line argument to allow a packager to compile for a specific > architecture, other than their own? For example I am running an i686 > system, whereas I want to compile for an i586 based system.
If a package's configure script doesn't recognize CFLAGS, it is a bug. Report it as such. Developers can build their own special compiler flags in as command line options if they please (--enable-optimize or whatever), but running ./configure with no args must obey CFLAGS, period. -Dave
