Re: [Python-Dev] Any reason why CPPFLAGS not used in compiling?

2004-12-06 Thread Brett C.
Martin v. Löwis wrote: Brett C. wrote: I noticed that Makefile.pre.in uses the value from the environment variable LDFLAGS but not CPPFLAGS. Any reason for this? How did you notice that? For LDFLAGS, Makefile.pre.in has LDFLAGS=@LDFLAGS@ This does *not* mean that the value from the

Re: [Python-Dev] Any reason why CPPFLAGS not used in compiling?

2004-12-06 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Brett C. wrote: I realize that much. But if you look in configure.in it seems to use the previous value of LDFLAGS every time it is redefined as a base and thus gets its initial value from the environment variable the first time it is tweaked. Yes, it would be possible to do the same thing for