Incompatibility w/ Automake

[Daniel Macks]

On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 08:17:20PM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> * Stepan Kasal 
> 
> | I'd like to discuss the following problem:
> | 
> | When using Automake, the -I and -D options should go to *_CPPFLAGS,
> | while only the rest should go to *_CFLAGS.
> | Likewise -l and -L options go to *_LDADD or *_LIBADD, the rest to
> | *_LDFLAGS.
> 
> In practice, not distinguishing between CPPFLAGS and CFLAGS doesn't
> cause a problem, so I'd recommend just using CFLAGS.  Yes, it might be
> unesthetical, but it'll work just fine.  (And use CXXFLAGS if you're
> dealing with C++.)

Is there any "the rest" that would go to *_CFLAGS? See response to my
'Meaning of "cflags"' recently on this mailing list. Having to
remember whether one has C or C++ and passing each specifically is
easily avoided by use of CPPFLAGS because it applies to both
languages' compilers.

dan

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