Re: Need a way to pass options to libtool

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Tue, 25 May 2004, Albert Chin wrote:

> On Sun, May 23, 2004 at 03:20:35PM -0500, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> > Currently Automake Makefiles include text like:
> >
> > LTCXXCOMPILE = $(LIBTOOL) --mode=compile $(CXX) $(DEFS) \
> >         $(DEFAULT_INCLUDES) $(INCLUDES) $(AM_CPPFLAGS) $(CPPFLAGS) \
> >         $(AM_CXXFLAGS) $(CXXFLAGS)
> >
> > Notice that there is no means provided to add libtool specific
> > options.  The only means available is for the user to cut-and-past
> > this chunk into their Makefile.am so that it overrides Automake's
> > default.  This has long term negative effects for Automake.
>
> Why not:
>  AM_CXXFLAGS += [your additions]

It is indeed true that after I posted I realized that my libtool 
syntax usage was incorrect and that CFLAGS/CXXFLAGS could be used for 
this purpose.  Sorry for the distraction.

Bob
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