[3020] in Kerberos-V5-bugs
pending/677: Build system problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Wed Dec 16 21:30:25 1998
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Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 21:29:23 -0500 (EST)
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: krb5-bugs@MIT.EDU
>Number: 677
>Category: pending
>Synopsis: Build system problems
>Confidential: yes
>Severity: serious
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: gnats-admin
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: unknown
>Arrival-Date: Wed Dec 16 21:30:00 EST 1998
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Here are two problems with the krb5 build system:
* The user should be able to run "make CFLAGS=foo" to override
the non-required cflags (-g vs. -O and anything specified in
the CFLAGS environment variable at configure time) for the
program. The same applies to CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS. krb5
uses CFLAGS and LDFLAGS as its own variables, stuffing
things like the -I../include options which are required for
compilation. This violates the gnu makefile standards, and
means that I can't control the compilation of krb5 in the
same way I control the compilation of other autoconf'd
packages (by putting LDFLAGS and CPPFLAGS or CFLAGS
declarations in config.site).
* When you have required preprocessor flags like -I../include
and -L../lib, they should go on the command line before
anything the user might have specified. If I tell the build
system I want -L/usr/athena/lib in my link lines, krb5
should not put that first and pick up previously installed
krb5 libraries from there.
