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On 9/8/06, Martin Schröder <martin at oneiros.de> wrote:
> 2006/9/8, Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk>:
> > Let me check you really intend to put C flags into a C++ link command?
> > CXXFLAGS might perhaps be appropriate.
>
> Indeed. My mistake.

Actually, I made it first.

> > It certainly will hurt if CC is Sun cc and CXX is g++.
> >
> > (I've not tracked down the exact code here, but the common practice is to
> > have e.g. CXX="CC -xarch=sparcv9" to get this sort of thing to work.
>
> Why not set LDFLAGS?

I just noticed this comment in the Makefile:

# Don't include $(CFLAGS), since ld -g under Linux forces
# static libraries, e.g., libc.a and libX*.a.
LDFLAGS =  $(XLDFLAGS)

Is XLCFLAGS is the "right" place for architecture flags?

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