i don't recall why, but I'm in favor of what you suggest.

-dan

On Sat, 3 Feb 2001, Johnny C. Lam wrote:

> In light of the recent addition of ${FFLAGS} to ${CONFIGURE_ENV}, I
> think it's also desirable to add the following variables as well:
> 
> 	CPPFLAGS
> 	CXXFLAGS
> 
> as both are also used by GNU configure if they are defined in the
> environment.  We current define:
> 
> 	CFLAGS
> 	FFLAGS
> 	LDFLAGS
> 
> in ${CONFIGURE_ENV}.  Quite a lot of packages already do:
> 
> 	CONFIGURE_ENV+=	CPPFLAGS="${CPPFLAGS}"
> 
> and several C++ packages do the same with CXXFLAGS. I'm unsure as to
> why they aren't part of ${CONFIGURE_ENV} already.  Can anyone recall
> why?
> 
> 	Thanks,
> 
>      -- Johnny C. Lam <lamj@stat.cmu.edu>
>         Department of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University
>         http://www.stat.cmu.edu/~lamj/
>