Meaning of "cflags"

[Daniel Macks]

On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 07:17:05AM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> * Daniel Macks 
> 
> | I'm a bit confused by what pkg-config means by "cflags", specifically,
> | whether it means "flags for the c-language compiler, all stages" or
> | "flags for the precompiler, all languages". That is, is the Cflags
> | field supposed to contain flags for linking as well, or only flags for
> | source compiling (e.g., .c -> .o)?
> 
> My understanding is it has just been used for compiling, so ??compiler
> flags?? which includes preprocessor flags (such as -D for cc/gcc).  I
> don't think this is written down anywhere, but from what I have seen
> of .pc files around, this is what people are using it for as well.
> 
> | Actually, that original isn't even functionally correct, because the
> | Makefile target is "program" but there's no flag to cc to override the
> | default output of "a.out".
> 
> -o ?

Right. *I* know how it *could* be done. My point is that the manpage
is wrong ("there's no" refers to the example, not the compiler
itself). The -o flag is not used:

       program: program.c
            cc program.c `pkg-config --cflags --libs gnomeui`

dan

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