Re: Emulating GNU Make conditionals,or: Is there a nice way to automaticallyset CFLAGS when make is run?

[Dalibor Topic <robilad at kaffe dot org>]

Hi Bob,

thanks for the quick reply.

Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> You can use Automake conditionals.  These are configure-time
> conditionals rather than make-time conditionals.
>
> You could add --with-check and --with-prof options to your configure
> script which enables these conditionals.

Done. But shouldn't it be called --enable instead of --with? I thought 
--with was for external packages, and --enable was for features.

> If your package preserves the capability to build outside of the
> source tree, then your users can simply maintain seperate builds with
> the desired options enabled.

Yeah, but the problem is that it makes some things, like doing a quick 
debugging or profiling build, be a little more trouble than before. 
Since you need to either keep the separate build around (and you may not 
need it all the time), and remeber to reconfigure when a part of the 
build machinery has changed, or you have to re-run configure each time, 
which is a bit of a waste of time, if all you want to have is a some 
CFLAGS mixing.

cheers,
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