Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Can software authors make allowances for packagers?
From: Dave Robillard (drobilla_AT_connect.carleton.ca)
Date: Sat Apr 17 2004 - 08:49:01 EEST
On Fri, 2004-04-16 at 20:53, Luke Yelavich wrote:
> Hi all
> I am busy packaging software for Slackware and trying to compile for a
> specific architecture. The one problem I am finding with several packages,
> is that the configure scripts obtain the architecture of the host system,
> and ignore the CFLAGS variable set that contains arguments for the compiler
> to compile for a specific architecture.
>
> I am wondering whether anybody has some work-work-arounds that might work
> on all packages, or could developers possibly provide a configure
> command-line argument to allow a packager to compile for a specific
> architecture, other than their own? For example I am running an i686
> system, whereas I want to compile for an i586 based system.
If a package's configure script doesn't recognize CFLAGS, it is a bug.
Report it as such.
Developers can build their own special compiler flags in as command line
options if they please (--enable-optimize or whatever), but running
./configure with no args must obey CFLAGS, period.
-Dave
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