Hi Kay, On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 9:09 AM, Kay Sievers <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 06:01, Randy Witt <[email protected]> wrote: >> This is mostly just preparation for the next patch. But this macro is >> used for flags that are only needed during linking but that don't >> make sense for normal compilation. >> >> I saw this exact type of patch online for systemd, but it never seems to >> have actually been incorporated into their attributes.m4. > >> LDFLAGS="$ac_save_LDFLAGS" > > Mangling CFLAGS or LDFLAGS variables directly with the build-systemd > is kind of broken. These variables should not be touched, and be > entirely left alone in control of the user. Systemd is wrong to do > that, we should not copy that model as it is. > > See here: > http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/html_node/User-Variables.html > > We should rather assign our own variable name with the test/evaluation > and add our own variable later to AM_* instead.
After reading this page I agree with you. But with this patch we are not worse than we were before, kind the opposite. And this issue can be solved by a later patch. If you are going to prepare a patch for systemd, let me know and I'll copy it :) Lucas De Marchi -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-modules" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
