On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 10:59:10AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 12/15/2016 10:53 AM, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 04:19:53PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
> >> Automake recommends the use of $(CFLAGS), not @CFLAGS@, because
> >> that allows a user to override CFLAGS at make time (with
> >> 'make CFLAGS=-g', for example) rather than being hard-coded to
> >> the CFLAGS in use during configure time. Use the preferred
> >> substitution style for ALL variables, not just CFLAGS.
> >
> > Actually, we want to use AM_CFLAGS, which works with older versions of
> > automake, too, IIRC. Given that, I don't think there's much point in
> > converting
> > all the @FOO_CFLAGS@ etc to $() syntax.
>
> Whether it is $(CFLAGS) or $(AM_CFLAGS) is less important, the point
> remains that automake (including older versions all the way back to the
> automake present on RHEL 5) documents that $(name) is preferred over
> @name@ substitutions in Makefile.am.
Okay, maybe I misremembered that then...
--
< ron> I mean, the main *practical* problem with C++, is there's like a dozen
people in the world who think they really understand all of its rules,
and pretty much all of them are just lying to themselves too.
-- #debian-devel, OFTC, 2016-02-12
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