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Re: config.site overrides commandline
From: |
Tim Van Holder |
Subject: |
Re: config.site overrides commandline |
Date: |
Fri, 24 May 2002 18:03:01 +0200 |
> I did a simple test to see how config.site parameters are handled.
> The test shows that parameters set in config.site override parameters
> set as configure options. The CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS options from
> config.site were used rather than options provided via configure's
> command line.
>
> It seems to me that command-line provided parameters should override
> those obtained from config.site.
>
> Bob
Sounds perfectly reasonable. config.site is also loaded to late
to override some startup tests.
There is, however, a bit of a chicken-and-egg problem there.
config.site is loaded from $prefix by default, but that can be given
on the command-line. So to have optimal behaviour, we'd need to
1) check the command-line for --prefix
2) load config.site
3) check the rest of the command line