[Devel] Re: debian rules overwrites CFLAGS

[Julien BLACHE]

Juha Heinanen <jh at tutpro.com> wrote:

Hi,

> when i make openser debian packages.  its turns out that debian/rules
> overwrites CFLAGS as defined by Makefile.defs like this:
>
> CFLAGS = -Wall -g
>
> is this intentional or can i remove the line and commit the change?

It is intentional. The default CFLAGS are broken in a number of ways,
of which I'll mention:
 - -O9 doesn't exist. Optimization levels range from 0 to 3
 - -finline-all-stringops is only available on a few architectures

And I fear that the default CFLAGS set by Makefile.defs may in fact
hide some real, legitimate warnings, but I can't remember the exact
flags used.

Moreover this is needed to build a proper debug version of the Debian
package (using DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS at build time).

> at the same time, i could commit dan's error report in the init file.

Please do. I'm still lagging behind, trying to catch up.

JB.

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