On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 11:55 AM, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
> I rather regularly want to pass extra flags to configure without
> overwriting CFLAGS. There's two basic reasons:
>
> 1) ./configure CFLAGS=... essentially breaks --enable-debug and related
> options, overwrites -O2 as the default and such. That's imo pretty
> confusing.
> 2) I like to be able to pass -Werror or something to configure without
> breaking a bunch of configure tests that won't work with Werror.
>
> A good way to do that seems to be to add a separate variable for that
> purpose? Unless someobdy has a better idea?
I use COPT for this purpose.
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