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Re: INSTALL minor error



Vidiot wrote:
>If this is really supposed to be a ADD, then the configure script is
>broken.  If this is really a replace (as it currently works), then the
>INSTALL instructions are in error.

True.  The INSTALL file probably should be changed.

>Personally, I think the configure script should be changed to make it work
>as an add.  The reason is that the user might not know what the default
>CFLAGS are in order to place them on the line a well.  The current GCC
>default CFLAGS is rather terse and quite forgettable.

No, it must be a replacement of the default.  This is the same
behaviour as all other packages, and allows maximum flexibility (in
your scheme we would need another mechanism to allow removal of default
flags).

-zefram



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