Re: addition to debian standards
On 23-Sep-1998, Dan Jacobowitz <drow@false.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 23, 1998 at 11:09:51PM +1000, Tyson Dowd wrote:
> > Not portable.
> >
> > That is a gnumake-ism, not part of make at all.
> >
> > You can't put that in a Makefile and use it on all machines.
> > The system make on IRIX 5.2 for example will barf on it (I just
> > checked).
> >
> > Since we often use portable code, I don't think it would be a good
> > idea to expect it to use non-portable constructs.
>
> But in all honesty there currently can not be (without a LOT of work) a
> debian/rules file that could be portable. I highly doubt dpkg will
> compile without gnu make.
Huh? Who said anything about debian/rules?
This is in the source code, which has been written by other people.
Of course you can use gnu-makeisms in debian/rules, but in
the main source it's not likely to be there and it's not a great
idea to change portable code to make it less portable, just so
you can fix a "bug" (which doesn't even solve the problem correctly).
>
> > Besides, += can only do concatenation, what you really want is
> > appending, because if you give an optimization option you don't
> > want it overriden by the given optimization options.
>
> There is no difference between concatenation and appending; and the
> last optimization always overrides the first.
make CFLAGS=-O221 -msome-architecture
Makefile:
CFLAGS += -g -O2 -m486
So CFLAGS = -O221 -msome-architecture -g -O2 -m486
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