Re: Bug#475971: This is caused by LDFLAGS being set in the environment (by dpkg-buildpacakge)

[Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>]

* Bernd Zeimetz [Sun, 20 Apr 2008 22:03:54 +0200]:

> Adeodato Simó wrote:
> > After a bit of inspection, the root of this FTBFS seems to be
> > dpkg-buildpackage having set LDFLAGS in the environment (even to an
> > empty value, mind you).

> If you use LDFLAGS as _make_ variable to build up the linker flags you
> need, for some reason this _make_ variable is now exported into the
> environment

Because it was *previously* in the environment, and make just changes
its value.

Cheers,

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Adeodato Simó                                     dato at net.com.org.es
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