Re: [PATCH] tools/qemu-xen: remove CFLAGS for qemu build

[Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>]

On Thu, Mar 01, Ian Jackson wrote:

> Olaf Hering writes ("[Xen-devel] [PATCH] tools/qemu-xen: remove CFLAGS for qemu build"):
> > tools/qemu-xen: remove CFLAGS for qemu build
> > 
> > Currently qemu-xen gets build with CFLAGS only if CFLAGS was already in
> > the environment during make invocation. If CFLAGS is in environment then
> > make will append all of the various flags specified in xen Makefiles,
> > which is then passed to qemu configure. If CFLAGS is not set, then
> > configure will use just "-O2 -g" because make does not export its own
> > CFLAGS variable.
> > 
> > To make qemu-xen build consistent this change removes CFLAGS from the
> > environment so that only the CFLAGS from qemu configure script will be
> > used. This matches what is done in kvm.rpm and qemu.rpm where for
> > example RPM_OPT_FLAGS is not passes as CFLAGS. Otherwise those packages
> > would not build as well.
> 
> I think it is a bug to try to invoke the Xen build system with CFLAGS
> set.  So I don't think it's a good idea to try to fix it up.

Its a way to pass RPM_OPT_FLAGS to build the tools. This includes things
like fortify-source (whatever the exact spelling is) and other global
flags to build a distro.
What other ways exist to pass that to the buildsystem for the tools?

Olaf