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Re: Target-specific CFLAGS
- From: Bob Friesenhahn <bfriesen at simple dot dallas dot tx dot us>
- To: Ben Pfaff <blp at cs dot stanford dot edu>
- Cc: automake at gnu dot org
- Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 15:47:22 -0600 (CST)
- Subject: Re: Target-specific CFLAGS
On Tue, 24 Feb 2004, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> >
> > Of course, when my source files are C++ files the _CFLAGS extension does
> > nothing. Changing this to _CPPFLAGS fixed the problem. Duh.
>
> You know that CPPFLAGS is for the C preprocessor and CXXFLAGS is
> for the C++ compiler, right?
This distinction is not entirely correct since CPPFLAGS is normally
supplied to the C++ compiler as well. CFLAGS is for the C compiler
and CXXFLAGS is for the C++ compiler.
Bob
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