respect CFLAGS: should I override optimizations?
Oliver Eikemeier
eikemeier at fillmore-labs.com
Tue Jun 1 01:32:34 PDT 2004
Roman Neuhauser wrote:
> [...]
>
>>Porters Handbook expresses clearly:
>>
>>"The port should respect the CFLAGS variable. What we mean by
>>this is that the port should not set the value of this variable
>>absolutely, overriding the existing value; instead, it should
>>append whatever values it needs to the existing value. This is
^^^^^
>>so that build options that affect all ports can be set
>>globally."
>
> Yes, that's *very clear*, and means that I should turn the
>
> CFLAGS = -O3 -Wall ...
>
> to
>
> CFLAGS += -O3 -Wall ...
It depends whether you consider `-O3' to be needed by the port.
Does it compile and run without?
-Oliver
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