On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 01:43:07AM +0100, Matthias Buelow wrote:

> Unfortunately, to my knowledge, the autoconf configure script doesn't
> really have a standard mechanism of _adding_ parameters to common
> build variables...

configure.in generates a shell script...  so you could just do something
silly like

OLDFLAGS=$FLAGS
FLAGS="$OLDFLAGS" "$NEWFLAGS"
#crazy test that needs NEWFLAGS here
FLAGS="$OLDFLAGS"
unset OLDFLAGS # for completeness...

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