Re: Weirdness in cygutils-1.2.5-1.sh ?

[Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>]

On Fri, 2 Apr 2004, Dave Korn wrote:

>   Just trying to build the cygutils from the source distro, and I'm having a
> little trouble with the build script:
>
> -----snip-----
> conf() {
>   (cd ${objdir} && \
>   CFLAGS="${MY_CFLAGS}" ${srcdir}/configure \
>   --srcdir=${srcdir} --prefix=${prefix} \
>   --exec-prefix=${prefix} --sysconfdir=${sysconfdir} \
>   --libdir=${prefix}/lib --includedir=${prefix}/include \
>   --mandir=${prefix}/share/man --infodir=${prefix}/share/info
> )}
> -----snip-----
>
>   But when I say
>
> -----snip-----
> export MY_CFLAGS='-g -O0'
> cygutils-1.2.5-1.sh conf
> cygutils-1.2.5-1.sh build
> -----snip-----
>
> I still get the default '-g -O2' flags.  There's no trace of my -O0 anywhere
> in the makefile.  Even trying setting
>
> -----snip-----
> export CFLAGS='-g -O0'
> export MY_CFLAGS='-g -O0'
> cygutils-1.2.5-1.sh conf
> cygutils-1.2.5-1.sh build
> -----snip-----
>
> doesn't make any difference.
>
>   Is it a bogus assumption that the configure script will respect CFLAGS?
> Is this just standard cygwin makescript boilerplate, kindof the same way
> that the top-level configure script goes and passes every option to every
> one of the subconfigures whether relevant or not?  It's a bit misleading to
> see that line there and think you can set the cflags for the build in the
> same way you can with gnu makefiles.
>
>     cheers,
>       DaveK

Dave,

See line 61 of the script -- it sets the MY_CFLAGS variable explicitly.
It's a shell script, not a Makefile, so environment settings don't
override variables that are set explicitly.

FWIW, the latest generic-build-script corrects this issue.
	Igor
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