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Subject: Re: hints.m4
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From: Jeff Trawick <trawickj@bellsouth.net>
Date: 08 Jan 2001 09:48:33 -0500
In-Reply-To: Jim Jagielski's message of "Sun, 7 Jan 2001 19:26:30 -0500 (EST)"
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Jim Jagielski <jim@jaguNET.com> writes:

> Hmmm... right now, if CFLAGS (et.al.) set, the hints.m4 stuff is
> *not* used (they are only set if these env vars are null)...
> I'm thinking now that that's not the right thing. These
> should be set (added) no matter what.

very minor point: there is a mixture of APR_ADDTO and APR_SETIFNULL,
hopefully (for some platforms at least) for good reason

> The reason for the current behavior is so that people can "overrule"
> the settings in hints by forcing CFLAGS, LIBS, etc... on the
> command line. I still think we need that somehow. 

edit hints.m4 perhaps?

edit config_vars.mk after configure*?

*not so simple as there are more places to edit
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