[Build-common-hackers] Bug#523642: Bug#523642: overrides CFLAGS too agressively

[Robert Millan]

On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 06:13:58PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> 
> I do not say that CDBS is correct or not in its current behaviour, just 
> that it has a well defined vurrent behaviour that users rely on (whether 
> or not they are aware of it).
> 
> I have tagged this as wontfix for that reason.  Please note that even if 
> this means I do not expect this to change (or at least not soon - it is 
> possible to change when we decide to bump ABI at some point, if ever), I 
> am still interested in discussing it!

Why not use an environment variable then?

> Could you perhaps provide some good examples of upstream software 
> needing custom CFLAGS that is cumbersome to work around using CDBS?

Yeah, Linux modules.  Or plugins in general for all sort of programs.  They're
usually very picky when it comes to CFLAGS.

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