Re: [PATCH] Teach Makefile to respect external variables: CFLAGS and others.

[Matthias Lederhofer <matled@gmx.net>]

Eygene Ryabinkin <rea-git@codelabs.ru> wrote:
> Junio, Sam, good day.
> 
> Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 11:07:56PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > I run "make CFLAGS=-O0 -g" all the time.  Also "make CC=echo"
> > seems to "work" as expected ;-).
> > 
> > Care to elaborate what problem you are trying to solve?
> 
> As Sam Ravnborg kindly pointed out, you're using make variables
> and I am trying to give the respect to the environment variables.
> 
> And the real problem is that one (for example, me) can try to
> build Git with the different compiler than CC (gccX or icc, for
> example).  And it is much better for lazy people to do 'export
> CC=whatever' once and then fire make any number of times ;))
> 
> Answering Sam: yes, with my patch it is easier to inherit the
> variables from the environment.  But it is not clear if it is
> good or bad ;))
> 
> But anyway, this patch is only my suggestion, and it can be
> thrown away :)

If you want to fix it for your own checkout of git just put whatever
you like in config.mak.  For example I add -ggdb3 to CFLAGS, set the
prefix variable and add some custom make targets in this file.