Re: Difference between AM_CFLAGS, AM_CPPFLAGS, and AM_LDFLAGS

[Stephen Torri]

On Tue, 2002-09-10 at 01:06, Paul Smith wrote:
> 
> Steve gave you the advantage: so you can run them individually.
> 
> There are many compilers that won't accept linker flags (libraries,
> etc.) on a command line meant to compile a file (but not link it).
> 
> The reason for having a separate CFLAGS and CPPFLAGS is even stronger:
> often you want to just run the C preprocessor (or a tool that takes the
> same arguments as the C preprocessor) either for debugging, or running
> tools like lint, or instrumenting your code with special debugging
> capabilities, etc.  In this case you need to be able to run the
> preprocessor and be sure you're getting all the same arguments as when
> you compile the code into an object file.

Thanks for the reply. I will work on the project separating the the
flags into the three variables.

Stephen