Re: Add EXTRA_CFLAGS to configure

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Add EXTRA_CFLAGS to configure
Date: 2015-10-28 13:17:30
Message-ID: 20151028131729.GH29811@alap3.anarazel.de
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On 2015-10-28 12:20:22 +0100, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 11:55 AM, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> wrote:
> > I rather regularly want to pass extra flags to configure without
> > overwriting CFLAGS. There's two basic reasons:
> >
> > 1) ./configure CFLAGS=... essentially breaks --enable-debug and related
> > options, overwrites -O2 as the default and such. That's imo pretty
> > confusing.
> > 2) I like to be able to pass -Werror or something to configure without
> > breaking a bunch of configure tests that won't work with Werror.
> >
> > A good way to do that seems to be to add a separate variable for that
> > purpose? Unless someobdy has a better idea?
>
> I use COPT for this purpose.

Unless I miss something you can't just pass that to configure though,
right? I.e. it has to be passed to each make invocation?

Andres

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