Re: Inheriting CFLAGS

[Jerome Brown <guruswami@orcon.net.nz>]

Thats solves the problem (I can tell just looking at it!)

To the xen-devels - is this a fair way to go about it (manually editing 
the Rules.mk to import CFLAGS) or is there a better way to go about it?

Cheers

Jerome

Philip Taylor wrote:
> Jerome Brown wrote on 15/11/2004 23:19:
> 
>> No, I do not have those lines in my Rules.mk file. It was downloaded 
>> this morning using the ebuild, so was the xen-2.0.tgz file from 
>> sourceforge. If I add -nopie to the CFLAGS in Rules.mk file xen will 
>> compile fine, however if I add -nopie to my environment CFLAGS it does 
>> not get picked up by the xen build script. Therefore I can compile and 
>> install it, but it takes manual intervention, which defeats the idea 
>> of using an ebuild :)
> 
> 
> Have you tried it with the updated ebuild (by SpanKY) at 
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=43893 ? I'm not completely sure 
> what it actually does, but it looks a bit like it alters CFLAGS in 
> Rules.mk and a few other Makefiles to pick up the environment's CFLAGS:
>     sed -i \
>         -e "/CFLAGS/s:-O3:${CFLAGS}:" \
>         tools/libx{c,util}/Makefile \
>         tools/misc/{miniterm,nsplitd}/Makefile \
>         tools/{misc,xentrace}/Makefile \
>         xen/arch/x86/Rules.mk || die "sed cflags"
> 


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