On Mar 24, 2007, at 18:53, Paul Guyot wrote:
On Mar 25, 2007, at 8:46 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
Many ports have had to add -L{$prefix}/lib to the LDFLAGS and -I$ {prefix}/include to the CFLAGS. Wouldn't it be much easier if the MacPorts infrastructure would add that to the LDFLAGS and CFLAGS generally for all ports? Could that hurt anything?
I would think the same should apply to CPPFLAGS and/or CXXFLAGS, not that I have yet understood why there are two variables for C++ code or what the difference is between them.
I am working on a new mechanism that would allow that (and also fix some issues with universal variant, the fact that most ports in MacPorts are compiled with -O0, etc.)
Yes, I should have mentioned the -O0 problem too. And there's a related problem with the universal variant, that "-isysroot / Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk -arch i386 -arch ppc" is only added to the CFLAGS, not the CPPFLAGS and/or CXXFLAGS, and that this should be remedied. What is this new mechanism you're working on? I would have thought that MacPorts already somewhere defines what default environment variables to use, and that the -L and -I options could simply be added to it, without requiring any major reworking.