automake : propagating make flags into subdirs

[David Denholm <daved@ctxuk.citrix.com>]

Hi,

[first off, I'm not subscribed to the list...]


A question about deep makefiles generated by autoconf / automake 1.4

If I start the build going with

 gmake -skw

should I expect the flags to propagate down the tree ?  We have quite
a lot of warning options enabled, and seeing all the commands getting
echo-ed completely obscures the warnings which we are looking for !




Which actually leads onto another question : is there a correct way to
enable maximum compiler warnings for a build ? We (gnugo project) currently
have code in configure.in to enable some extra warnings if gcc is detected, but
what about other compilers ?  Is there a standard approach for this  ?


thanks in advance

dd
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David Denholm            daved@ctxuk.citrix.com
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