On Fri, 17 Jan 2014, Jed Brown wrote: > As far as I know, this is not a widespread convention. Lots of users > put in CFLAGS=-O3 and either don't notice that it doesn't get used or > are frustrated that it's not used. Is the "auto" value of splitting out > COPTFLAGS worth this confusion? Or can we make the behavior more > obvious?
This is primarily required for the option --with-debugging=0/1 [which is also not a convention used by other packages] Satish
