From: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 19:52:37 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] Makefile: Don't pass $(ALL_CFLAGS) to the linker
Message-ID: <4C2BA085.3060601@ramsay1.demon.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTilvV9Lty6jciIvASrRrzZ5rf9s2zmgulxuyM1hE@mail.gmail.com>

Peter Harris wrote:
> The vast majority of git devs work in an environment where compiler
> flags and linker flags aren't completely disjoint, and it's not very
> polite of us to rework their makefile to fit our view of the world.
> Especially when we already have a wrapper that fits their world to
> ours.

Yep, good point.

>> Also, are you correctly filtering *all* possible inappropriate options?
>> For example, the very next patch on my branch (not sent to list) adds
>> a -W3 option ... ;-)
> 
> Heck no. This only filters the options that are used by the git makefile.
> But adding a filter for -W* is a trivial one liner (one character-er, even).

Your patch fixes my problem, and is *much* better than my patch, so could
you send a formal patch to the list (with W added to the the regex as well
as Z)?

Thanks.

ATB,
Ramsay Jones