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From: "Christian Biesinger via gdb-patches" <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
To: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
Cc: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>, gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/6] Move gdbsupport to top level
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2020 18:01:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPTJ0XFwH08AUVigZgPR=C8+0WcPDdnKOMouZMhwDwQN5P5Qtw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <585a0731-74a2-7712-bb4f-8c69fdcecaf5@redhat.com>

On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 11:23 AM Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com> wrote:
> > For that patch, why not just use AM_CFLAGS/AM_CXXFLAGS?
>
> I was mainly following what GDB does, with:
>
>  COMPILE.pre = $(CXX) -x c++ $(CXX_DIALECT)
>
> I guess I was the one who did that, so that's not going to be
> a strong explanation.  :-)
>
> It's just that I feel like the compiler mode is more about
> picking a different compiler than about picking some flags
> like warnings flags or compilation levels.  I think that
> in practice the only difference is that you see the
> -std=gnu++11 next to the compiler command:
>
> $ rm -f selftest.o && make V=1 selftest.o
> /opt/gcc-4.8/bin/g++ -std=gnu++11 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I/home/pedro/gdb/binutils-gdb/src/gdbsupport  -I/home/pedro/gdb/binutils-gdb/src/gdbsupport/config.h -I/home/pedro/gdb/binutils-gdb/src/gdbsupport/../include -I/home/pedro/gdb/binutils-gdb/src/gdbsupport/../gdb -I../gnulib/import -I/home/pedro/gdb/binutils-gdb/src/gdbsupport/../gnulib/import -I.. -I/home/pedro/gdb/binutils-gdb/src/gdbsupport/..  -I../bfd -I/home/pedro/gdb/binutils-gdb/src/gdbsupport/../bfd   -g3 -O0 -MT selftest.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/selftest.Tpo -c -o selftest.o /home/pedro/gdb/binutils-gdb/src/gdbsupport/selftest.c
> mv -f .deps/selftest.Tpo .deps/selftest.Po
>
> vs, with AM_CFLAGS:
>
> $ rm -f selftest.o && make V=1 selftest.o
> /opt/gcc-4.8/bin/g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I/home/pedro/gdb/binutils-gdb/src/gdbsupport  -I/home/pedro/gdb/binutils-gdb/src/gdbsupport/config.h -I/home/pedro/gdb/binutils-gdb/src/gdbsupport/../include -I/home/pedro/gdb/binutils-gdb/src/gdbsupport/../gdb -I../gnulib/import -I/home/pedro/gdb/binutils-gdb/src/gdbsupport/../gnulib/import -I.. -I/home/pedro/gdb/binutils-gdb/src/gdbsupport/..  -I../bfd -I/home/pedro/gdb/binutils-gdb/src/gdbsupport/../bfd  -std=gnu++11 -g3 -O0 -MT selftest.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/selftest.Tpo -c -o selftest.o /home/pedro/gdb/binutils-gdb/src/gdbsupport/selftest.c
> mv -f .deps/selftest.Tpo .deps/selftest.Po
>
> AFAICT, overriding CXXFLAGS or CXX in the make invocation works
> the same in either case.

How so? override is documented to override commandline variables?
https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Override-Directive.html#Override-Directive

But yes, that's what I was thinking of, and just in general that
override seems a bit ugly.

Christian


  reply	other threads:[~2020-01-16 17:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-01-09  0:58 Tom Tromey
2020-01-09  0:58 ` [PATCH v2 4/6] Remove use of <config.h> from gdb/nat/ Tom Tromey
2020-01-09  0:58 ` [PATCH v2 5/6] Add gdbsupport check-defines script Tom Tromey
2020-01-09  0:58 ` [PATCH v2 1/6] Consolidate definition of USE_WIN32API Tom Tromey
2020-01-09  0:58 ` [PATCH v2 6/6] Don't link gdb twice against libiberty Tom Tromey
2020-01-11 16:58 ` [PATCH v2 0/6] Move gdbsupport to top level Tom Tromey
2020-01-12  2:48   ` Simon Marchi
2020-01-14 23:25     ` Tom Tromey
2020-01-15  0:36     ` Tom Tromey
2020-01-15 21:27   ` Christian Biesinger via gdb-patches
2020-01-17 18:02     ` Tom Tromey
2020-01-15 14:30 ` Pedro Alves
     [not found]   ` <8a8de6a9-37b8-cad3-c818-be903037fe48@redhat.com>
2020-01-15 16:07     ` Pedro Alves
     [not found]       ` <87c733a2-2b25-a954-88a1-9bfb1a7eca12@redhat.com>
2020-01-15 21:46         ` Pedro Alves
2020-01-15 22:12           ` Pedro Alves
2020-01-16  0:48             ` Pedro Alves
2020-01-16  2:57               ` Christian Biesinger via gdb-patches
2020-01-16 17:22                 ` Pedro Alves
2020-01-16 18:01                   ` Christian Biesinger via gdb-patches [this message]
2020-01-16 18:28                     ` Pedro Alves
2020-01-16 19:21                       ` Christian Biesinger via gdb-patches
2020-01-16  9:02           ` Simon Marchi
2020-01-16 15:24             ` Pedro Alves
2020-01-17 12:20               ` Simon Marchi
2020-01-17 13:37                 ` Pedro Alves
2020-01-17 14:40                   ` Simon Marchi
2020-01-17 15:32                     ` Pedro Alves
2020-01-17 18:13                       ` Tom Tromey
2020-01-16  4:23 ` Simon Marchi

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