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

[Raphael Hertzog]

On Sun, 12 Apr 2009, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> >Another option could be that when CFLAGS is unset (rather than empty), 
> >CDBS detects this and doesn't pass anything as override.  This allows 
> >user to explicitly set CFLAGS in DEB_MAKE_ENVVARS, or not at all.
> 
> Actually, first off when I read you initial post, I went straight into 
> the code to try do this.  But I didn't succeed - I suspect it is too 
> difficult to distinguish unset from empty.

Maybe with this:
ifeq($(origin CFLAGS),undefined)

Cheers,
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Raphaël Hertzog

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