Martin v. LÃwis wrote:
> Brett C. wrote:
> 
>>Works for me.  If no one objects I will check in the change for CFLAGS to make
>>it ``$(BASECFLAGS) $(OPT) "$EXTRA_CFLAGS"`` soon (is quoting it enough to make
>>sure that it isn't evaluated by configure but left as a string to be evaluated
>>by the shell when the Makefile is running?).
> 
> 
> If you put it into Makefile.pre.in, the only thing to avoid that
> configure evaluates is is not to use @[EMAIL PROTECTED] OTOH, putting a $
> in front of it is not good enough for make: $EXTRA_CFLAGS evaluates
> the variable E, and then appends XTRA_CFLAGS.
> 

Yep, you're right.  I initially thought that the parentheses meant it was a
Makefile-only variable, but it actually goes to the environment for those
unknown values.

Before I check it in, though, should setup.py be tweaked to use it as well?  I
say yes.

-Brett
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