Re: [PATCH 4/4] Makefile: Don't pass $(ALL_CFLAGS) to the linker

* Ramsay Jones [off-list ref] [100626 20:02]:

Really? I thought that the general scheme was something like:

    - LDFLAGS is for options which only affects the operation of
      the linker (e.g. -L).
    - CPPFLAGS is for options which only affects the operation of
      the C pre-processor (e.g. -I, -D, -U)
    - CFLAGS is for options which only affects the operation of
      the compiler proper.

I think the problem are options like -g or -m64 and the like which
you also want to give to the linker on some systems, so it is quite
common and I'd say recommended to have the compiling stage get
CPPFLAGS and CFLAGS and the linking stage getting CFLAGS and LDFLAGS
(and link using the compiler, otherwise you might miss libraries anyway).
I do not know if automake started with this, or if it is older.

Also, the last time I was forced to use automake (yuck), I noticed that
it passed CPPFLAGS to the linker; I consider this to be a bug in
automake. :-P

Huh? Never heared of that bug, it must be more than 15 years ago. Are
you sure it was not CFLAGS it passed to the linker?

	Bernhard R. Link

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