[pacman-dev] makepkg misses to export variables

[Andrew Fyfe]

Mateusz Jedrasik wrote:
> Thursday 17 of May 2007 04:41:12 Dan McGee napisał(a):
>> On 5/16/07, Mateusz Jedrasik <m.jedrasik at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Seems the flags get exported... but my builds still dont build with the
>>> cflags specified nor with -j3...
>>>
>>> Maybe something's wrong with the build process, i.e., the stuff gets
>>> exported but then gets neglected/overwritten during ./configure and
>>> make/gmake.
>> Things are MUCH easier to debug if you give us a specific package or
>> PKGBUILD that fails, instead of trying to generalize the issue. Can
>> you do this?
>>
>> -Dan
>>
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> 
> Pretty much any package doesn't work properly.
> 
> If the package uses g++ for compilation, no CFLAGS are used at all (for 
> example, aurbuild -s nanodc) and neither are MAKEFLAGS (-j3). Well maybe they 
> are, just the package's Makefiles cannot support it... but I doubt it.
> 
> If a package uses C (such as irssi-svn), then the flags are passed, so 'only' 
> MAKEFLAGS don't work.
> 
> Hope this helps...
> 
> Regards,
> 
> //m.

I've tested the latest version of makepkg out of git and it works 
perfectly all the required variables (CFLAGS, CXXFLAGS, MAKEFLAGS, 
DISTCC_HOST) are exported to the shell. If a package isn't picking them 
up it's probably the package that's broken.

Andrew