[openssl-dev] [openssl.org #4664] Enhancement: better handling of CFLAGS and LDFLAGS

[Tomas Mraz via RT]

On Po, 2016-08-29 at 14:27 +0000, Richard Levitte via RT wrote:
> On Mon Aug 29 12:27:59 2016, appro wrote:
> > 
> > Or maybe ("maybe" is reference to "I don't quite grasp" above) what
> > we
> > are talking about is Configure reading CFLAGS and LDFLAGS and
> > *adding*
> > them to generated Makefile. I mean we are not talking about passing
> > them
> > to 'make', but "freezing" them to their values at configure time.
> > Could
> > you clarify?
> I assume, and please correct me if I'm wrong, that the request is to
> treat the
> environment variables CFLAGS and LDFLAGS the same way we treat CC,
> i.e. as an
> initial value to be used instead of what we get from the
> configuration target
> information.
> 
> This should be quite easy to implement, and we can also continue to
> use
> whatever additional Configure arguments as compiler or linker flags
> to be used
> *in addition* to the initial value (that comes from the config target
> information, or if we decide to implement it, CFLAGS)

Ideally the optimization/debugging flags not affecting directly the
code that is being compiled would be replaced with what is placed into
CFLAGS/LDFLAGS. But things like -D would be kept from the config target
information.

-- 
Tomas Mraz
No matter how far down the wrong road you've gone, turn back.
                                              Turkish proverb
(You'll never know whether the road is wrong though.)




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