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Re: AM_CFLAGS
From: |
Steve Robbins |
Subject: |
Re: AM_CFLAGS |
Date: |
Mon, 12 Feb 2001 23:06:40 -0500 |
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Mutt/1.3.12i |
On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 01:14:31AM -0200, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> On Feb 12, 2001, Steve Robbins <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > And I thought that it was a simple bug: the aclocal regexp was not
> > taking into account the possibility of assigning to a variable name
> > starting with "AM_".
>
> You shouldn't assign to these variables. These are for *users* to
> override, not for configure.in to override. It's good that aclocal
> and autoconf won't let you do it easily.
Hm. I didn't check the archives, but I'm pretty sure this discussion
has already taken place on at least one of the two auto* lists.
My recollection of that discussion was just the opposite: the user
gets to set CFLAGS, LDFLAGS, and the like, while the software author
gets to set AM_-versions of them. Otherwise, why have two versions
of them?
Cheers,
-Steve
- AM_CFLAGS, Tom Tromey, 2001/02/11
- Re: AM_CFLAGS, Alexandre Oliva, 2001/02/11
- Re: AM_CFLAGS, Tom Tromey, 2001/02/12
- Re: AM_CFLAGS, Alexandre Oliva, 2001/02/12
- Re: AM_CFLAGS, Tom Tromey, 2001/02/13
- Re: AM_CFLAGS, Alexandre Oliva, 2001/02/13
- Re: AM_CFLAGS, Tom Tromey, 2001/02/13
- Re: AM_CFLAGS, Akim Demaille, 2001/02/19
- Re: AM_CFLAGS, Tom Tromey, 2001/02/20
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- Re: AM_CFLAGS, Alexandre Oliva, 2001/02/12
- Re: AM_CFLAGS,
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- Re: AM_CFLAGS, Alexandre Oliva, 2001/02/13