Roumen Petrov <bugtr...@roumenpetrov.info> added the comment: > > Martin, can you please elaborate on this? I never heard of such > > "standards" in OSS. > > MAL already gave the link. From the link: > > Sometimes package developers are tempted to set user variables such as > CFLAGS because it appears to make their job easier. However, the package > itself should never set a user variable, particularly not to include > switches that are required for proper compilation of the package. Since > these variables are documented as being for the package builder, that > person rightfully expects to be able to override any of these variables > at build time.
So one day package builder by right will set CFLAGS to make their job easier and python build system will not ignore it. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue1628484> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
