passing FLAGS_FOR_TARGET_ to subdirectories

[Nathanael Nerode]

On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 09:02:12PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 07:48:53PM -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote:
> > I just read http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2002-10/msg01720.html.
> > 
> > I don't like it at all.  It's ugly and it introduces an extra temporary 
> > file.  It significantly complicates my goal, which is to clean up 
> > the configure and build process; this goes in the opposite 
> > direction.  Don't do it, or I'll be forced to propose a patch that 
> > removes it. :-P
> 
> How would you do it then?  I think it's cleaner, personally.  When the
> top level is autoconfed, I'd turn the use of the temporary file into
> dropping them into config.cache, and error in the subdirs if the value
> isn't already cached.  I didn't want to blit data into config.cache
That would be OK (even elegant), although I would prefer not to error in 
the subdirs; I don't see why a hard error would be necessary.

> from a non-autoconf script.
So wait until I've autoconfiscated.  If gcc 3.3 would BRANCH ALREADY 
we'd be autoconfiscated (although there would be further cleanup I 
wanted to do) within a month, I estimate.  Is this fixing a 
release-critical bug?  Then do it in a branch release.

OK, sorry, I'm getting irritable because my patches are delayed through 
no fault of my own.  Not your fault either.

> I can't pass them in the command line or in the environment.  They have
> to go somewhere.
> 
> -- 
> Daniel Jacobowitz
> MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer