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Re: accepted by the compiler, but rejected by the preprocessor
On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 05:04:38AM -0400, Ambrose Li wrote:
> Hi,
>
> in 2.99.56pre4, configure tests for some libraries such as db2.
> The "cc" test will use CFLAGS (but not CPPFLAGS...), but the
> "cc -E" test will use neither CFLAGS nor CPPFLAGS.
>
> The result is that if the user really specified CPPFLAGS for
> some libraries, configure still won't find it, because the
> preprocessor won't find know where it is, and configure is
> trusting the preprocessor.
I did test this, and config.log shows that CPPFLAGS does get
used. At least when given in the TAIL of the command line parameters
for ./configure (Probably also when given up in front of the
command.)
> Regards,
> --
> Ambrose LI Cheuk-Wing <a.c.li@ieee.org>
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/Matti Aarnio <mea@nic.funet.fi>
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