Default CFLAGS clobbering

Michael Nottebrock michaelnottebrock at gmx.net
Sat May 22 17:51:52 BST 2004


On Saturday 22 May 2004 18:43, Simon Hausmann wrote:
> On Saturday 22 May 2004 18:28, Michael Nottebrock wrote:
> > On Saturday 22 May 2004 17:17, Simon Hausmann wrote:
> > > This is autoconf's default when using gcc (per c.m4) , so the whole
> > > pool of autoconf'ed software out there behaves that way.
> >
> > Uhm, you must be reading it wrong. AC_PROG_CC generates a check that sets
> > -g -O2 if CFLAGS is not specified _at all_ (and gcc is used), if CFLAGS
> > are specified it uses them verbatim without any additions.
>
> True, I misread that. But then we should behave like that, too, and not
> simply get rid of the -O2 in the default CFLAGS as suggested originally.

That would be perfectly fine with me, so let me rephrase my request: Can we 
please stop prepending -O2 to existing C(XX)FLAGS? I don't care about the 
debug-enabled cases.

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