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From: Alexander Best <arundel@freebsd.org>
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Subject: Re: setting CC/CXX/CPP unconditionally in src.conf
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On Tue Feb 28 12, Dimitry Andric wrote:
> On 2012-02-26 22:37, Alexander Best wrote:
> > any chance support for setting CC/CXX/CPP unconditionally in src.conf could be
> > added before the release of freebsd 10.0? the way it is done atm is really not
> > intuitive. the rule should really be:
> > 
> > - make.conf = applies globally
> > - src.conf  = applies only to /usr/src
> > ( maybe a ports.conf or port.conf could be introduced at some point, too)
> > 
> > ... the current situation, where only certain variables can be set in src.conf
> > is not ideal.
> 
> I just committed r232263 to head, which should allow setting CC/CXX/CPP
> in src.conf.  Please try it out.

any chance we can have a CFLAGS.gcc and CFLAGS.clang in the future? that would
make certain things a lot easier. dealing with gcc specific options, such as
-mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 would simply work by setting
CFLAGS.gcc=-mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 e.g.

cheers.
alex