Respecting CC/CFLAGS/etc (was: Re: update: enigma)

[naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber)]

Han Boetes <han@mijncomputer.nl> wrote:

> If I would like to keep in mind that I could send patches to the authors
> of the software so they can take these simple  wishes  in  account  what
> should the patches look like.

There is no general answer to this; the details depend on the build
framework of the affected piece of software.

> In the Makefile.in I mostly see something like : CC= @CC@ which is not a
> problem, just that the configure script doesn't take CC in account.
> 
> But lots of configure files are now generated  with  automake.  So  what
> would be the best way to solve this situation?

configure and Makefile frameworks generated with autoconf and
automake correctly pick up CC/CFLAGS/CXX/CXXFLAGS by default.  If
they don't, then that's because the authors have accidentally or
purposely overridden those variables.  If it's an accident, you
study up on the GNU auto* tools and send a fix.  If it's intentional,
you can talk to the authors, but they are likely to stubbornly
insist that their program be built by default with -O20 or some
similar nonsense.  In that case you just lug the patch along in the
port.

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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de