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On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 03:32:24PM -0700, David O'Brien wrote:
> The right way to "fix" these that use GNU configure is to export the
> CFLAGS you wish to use when you run configure.  I see we do that, so I'm
> not sure why -O2 is used.

Some configure scripts are broken and append/prepend their own CFLAGS
without your permission.  Some Linux kiddies assume that if -O9 works on
their box, it's gonna work on all the world's[*] machines.  Coding
should be a crime if people don't know how to write portable code.  =3D)

--=20
wca
[*]  Yes, a pun on David.  ;)

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