Re: [Bug-ed] [PATCH] configure: respect user env settings

[Mike Frysinger]

On Friday 02 January 2009 07:55:21 Antonio Diaz Diaz wrote:
> Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > On Thursday 01 January 2009 18:08:52 Karl Berry wrote:
> >>No, setting variables on the cmdline is the newer/preferred way.
> >>Setting envvars is the older/unpreferred way
> >
> > personally i find the command line clunky when dealing with
> > whitespaced variables as it isnt uncommon for it to fall apart in
> > configure scripts and recursive configure scripts.
>
> BTW, I consider the use of whitespaced variables bad practice.

then i guess you consider setting any compiler flags bad practice ?  90% of 
the time, it's a list of flags, not a single one.
-mike

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