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Re: [trinity-devel] Need help: cmake/pkgconfig breakage?

From: Darrell Anderson <humanreadable@...>
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:36:40 -0800 (PST)
> > I'm nowhere close to being qualifed to write something
> about
> > CXX/CFLAGS. Somebody else (not you) should provide a
> paragraph
> > addressing those variables.
> 
> Read the documentation for gcc and make.  They control
> how a program is compiled and can make a huge
> difference.  The developer should know what the options
> do before they are set.  Variables like CFLAGS and
> CXXFLAGS are often set or modified in a Makefile.
> 
> For qt based apps, it would also be helpful to read through
> the qmake manual as that generally is used, via a .pro file,
> to generate the Makefile for an application or library.

I have no problem with learning, but an RTFM response rather than helping is lame. :)

Darrell