On Dec 2, 2010, at 4:16 AM, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
On 2010-12-01 23:56, Albert Graef wrote:
IOhannes m zmölnig wrote:
however, afaict, CFLAGS and LDFLAGS are commonly meant to be
settable by
the user, so setting those should not break the build system.
Exactly. Therefore a Makefile should *not* set CFLAGS, CXXFLAGS,
LDFLAGS
and the like, or only set them to some reasonable defaults which
can be
freely overridden by the user. Of course this means that build-
specific
options must be passed in the corresponding Makfile rules in
addition to
these variables.
finarlly someone who understands me!
This is only a convention, of course, but it's part of the GNU Coding
Standards
ha, thank you very much for the pointer.
i think the curcial part is:
"If there are C compiler options that must be used for proper
compilation of certain files, do not include them in CFLAGS. Users
expect to be able to specify CFLAGS freely themselves."
and i think this can also be extrapolated for any of the standard
flags
(CPPFLAGS, CFLAGS, CXXFLAGS, LDFLAGS)
So what do you propose? I for one am really sick of build system
stuff. What we have works quite well on many platform, but yes, its
not perfect. About changes to the template Makefile, last time
IOhannes you changed it, you didn't test it well and it had a bug
where the help files didn't get included and it didn't throw and
error. That caused me to have to re-issue Pd-extended releases to
make sure all the help patches were included, which I was not happy
about.
So basically, if anyone wants to improve the template Makefile, that's
good, but they need to _thoroughly_ test all changes to it on multiple
platforms. Really, the way to do it is to do these changes as part of
a library, then once they are well tested and ironed out, include them
in the template Makefile.
.hc
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