Satish Balay <[email protected]> writes: > 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]
It's not uncommon to have such a flag to enable debugging _code_ within the library. IIRC, it usually implies adding a debugging flag unless the user specifies CFLAGS themselves.
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