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Makefile: COPTS vs CFLAGS

Subject: Makefile: COPTS vs CFLAGS

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2 messages between Jul 29, 2005 and Jul 29, 2005.

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  Hello,

  one more thing - should we keep the $COPTS variable? Most projects
(including Cogito) have the C flags controlled by the $CFLAGS variable.

  What I would propose:

	-COPTS=-g -O2
	-CFLAGS=$(COPTS) -Wall
	+CFLAGS?=-g -O2
	+CFLAGS+=-Wall

  That is, if user does not specify custom $CFLAGS, default to "-g -O2",
and always append -Wall (and more after I'll send my Makefile patches).

  Opinions?

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Re: Makefile: COPTS vs CFLAGS

On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 15:40:11 +0200 Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> wrote:

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>   What I would propose:
> 
> 	-COPTS=-g -O2
> 	-CFLAGS=$(COPTS) -Wall
> 	+CFLAGS?=-g -O2
> 	+CFLAGS+=-Wall

Sounds good. I've never heard of anyone using COPTS variable before. And "-g -O2" seems to be a good default value.

Using $DESTDIR instead of $dest would be nice too because DESTDIR is used by Autotools.

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