Re: multimedia/ffmpeg2 on Mac OSX v10.7.5

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Sat, Feb 28, 2015 at 09:50:12PM +0000, David Holland wrote:
> autotools build systems honor (an arbitrary and unpredictable set of)
> variables set in the environment of the configure script, but don't
> honor them at build time.

Eh, no. automake is pretty explicit about separating program and user
controller environment and packages are *not* supposed to modify the
former. If you want to add something to CFLAGS, you are supposed to use
AM_CFLAGS etc. The set of environment variables automake packages are
supposed to use is well documented. What a random autoconf using system
does is a separate question, but that's not really autoconf fault but
more the NIH/C&P problem of who they decided to borrow from.

Joerg