Meaning of "cflags"

Tollef Fog Heen tfheen at err.no
Sun Feb 24 22:55:53 PST 2008


* Daniel Macks 

| On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 07:17:05AM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
| > * Daniel Macks 
| > 
| > | 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`

Oh, sorry, I didn't see you were referring to the manpage.  Please
file a bug about this and I'll get it fixed in the next release.

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Tollef Fog Heen
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