Re: common c(xx)flags for compilation?

[Karl Berry]

    Another possible name would be COMPILERFLAGS

I like it.

If "people" (Brandon?) think it's worthwhile, I could make up the patch
to propose to rms.

However, I realized that in practice it would conceivably be more
useful to have the generic options after the compiler-specific options,
even though that is not logical.

The reason is that one of the principal reasons I bothered to write this
was because it would be nice to be able to say  make SOMEVAR=-g  and
get just debugging, no optimization, for all compilers.  But if
COMPILERFLAGS comes before CFLAGS, that won't be the result.  Whereas if
the new var comes after, then SOMEVAR="-g -OO" will do it.

The strictly logical approach would be to put the default "-g -O2"
(being generic options) into the new variable instead of the traditional
CFLAGS, CXXFLAGS, etc.  But I think that is too big a break with
tradition and will surely mess up plenty of existing build processes.
So I wouldn't want to go there.

So maybe there is no hope and we are stuck with the status quo.  Sigh.  -k