From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 7421 invoked from network); 30 Jan 1997 23:24:11 -0000 Received: from euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (list@130.207.146.50) by coral.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 30 Jan 1997 23:24:11 -0000 Received: (from list@localhost) by euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) id SAA26650; Thu, 30 Jan 1997 18:19:15 -0500 (EST) Resent-Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 18:09:16 -0500 (EST) From: Zefram Message-Id: <2382.199701302309@stone.dcs.warwick.ac.uk> Subject: Re: INSTALL minor error To: brown@ftms.COM (Vidiot) Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 23:09:47 +0000 (GMT) Cc: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu In-Reply-To: <199701302211.QAA03992@ftms.ftms.com> from "Vidiot" at Jan 30, 97 04:11:13 pm X-Loop: zefram@dcs.warwick.ac.uk X-Stardate: [-31]8809.82 X-US-Congress: Moronic fuckers Content-Type: text Resent-Message-ID: <"iRKJN2.0.SM6.SeIyo"@euclid> Resent-From: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/637 X-Loop: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu Vidiot wrote: >If this is really supposed to be a ADD, then the configure script is >broken. If this is really a replace (as it currently works), then the >INSTALL instructions are in error. True. The INSTALL file probably should be changed. >Personally, I think the configure script should be changed to make it work >as an add. The reason is that the user might not know what the default >CFLAGS are in order to place them on the line a well. The current GCC >default CFLAGS is rather terse and quite forgettable. No, it must be a replacement of the default. This is the same behaviour as all other packages, and allows maximum flexibility (in your scheme we would need another mechanism to allow removal of default flags). -zefram