On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 12:45 AM, Garrett Cooper <yaneg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 5:40 PM, CAI Qian <caiq...@cclom.cn> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> --- On Mon, 1/19/09, Mike Frysinger <vap...@gentoo.org> wrote:
>>
>>> From: Mike Frysinger <vap...@gentoo.org>
>>> Subject: Re: [LTP] build variables
>>> To: "Garrett Cooper" <yaneg...@gmail.com>
>>> Cc: ltp-list@lists.sourceforge.net
>>> Date: Monday, January 19, 2009, 6:24 AM
>>> On Friday 16 January 2009 18:12:11 Garrett Cooper wrote:
>>> > On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 12:43 PM, Mike Frysinger
>>> <vap...@gentoo.org> wrote:
>>> > > we arent getting tools from configure. but that
>>> doesnt mean we cant
>>> > > integrate support for doing so ... then people
>>> could do the nice:
>>> > > ./configure --host=some-other-target
>>> > > and it would autodiscover CC/AR/CXX/RANLIB/etc...
>>> >
>>> > Yeah. I may not like configure completely, but
>>> that's definitely
>>> > an indispensable feature that we should employ.
>>>
>>> so ive implemented this in cvs now and seems to work for me
>>> ... configure will
>>> now setup CC/AR/RANLIB and CFLAGS/CPPFLAGS/LDFLAGS based on
>>> user input
>>>
>>> i dont think we actually have an C++ tests ? so i havent
>>> setup CXXFLAGS/CXX
>>
>> Not true if you count Ballista test cases.
>>
>> CAI Qian
>>
>>> -mike
>
> 1) Its build system uses a weird configure script with ancient
> references to AIX, Solaris 4.x and Vxworks.
> 2) Yes, variables do carry over, but we don't mess around with those
> variables at all. The top-level caller is the only one that fiddles
> with those variables.
> 3) The writers of the original Makefiles don't use implicit rules and
> instead use CFLAGS instead of CXXFLAGS which is an epic fail for
> all... CFLAGS =~ CXXFLAGS, but CXXFLAGS !~ CXXFLAGS.
>
> So in conclusion: the makefiles are junk.
> HTH,
> -Garrett
Oh yeah.. they're using ${CC} instead of ${CXX} too.... silly, silly people.
-Garrett
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