[pacman-dev] makepkg misses to export variables

[Dan McGee]

On 5/21/07, Andrew Fyfe <andrew at neptune-one.net> wrote:
> 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
> >
> > 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

Thanks for the testing, I (we) appreciate it. I would have to agree
with Andrew now if you are having problems with the makepkg in GIT
now- it would be a broken package (in the build process) rather than a
broken makepkg.

-Dan