[PPL-devel] Re: Feature request: optionally compile with support for exceptions
Kevin Ryde
user42 at zip.com.au
Wed Oct 24 01:55:57 CEST 2001
Roberto Bagnara <bagnara at cs.unipr.it> writes:
>
> CFLAGS=-fexceptions /usr/local/distrib/gmp-3.1.1/configure
>
> I override all the other compilation flags: I get `-fexceptions'
> and not `-g -O -fomit-frame-pointer -mcpu=pentiumpro'.
> If assigning to CFLAGS was meant to _add_ to the compilation flags,
> then this is a bug in the configure script. In some projects of
> mine I use configure options like --with-extra-cflags for that purpose.
> All the best,
I sometimes set CPPFLAGS to do that. Not a kosher use of that
variable, but it works because gmp and autoconf don't usually use it
for anything else.
I'm not sure what the right way is. The current suggestion is to
watch what GMP gives, then re-run with that and any additions or
subtractions.
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