rpmbuild: unset CFLAGS & CXXFLAGS ?

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Fri, 2007-11-09 at 23:09 +0530, Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray wrote:

> However it still bothers me that rpmbuild takes the environment's
> CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS instead of forcing its own. Since Koji normally
> uses:
> CFLAGS='-O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions ...
> CXXFLAGS='-O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions ..
> FFLAGS='-O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions ...
> would it not be better if rpmbuild used the same values and ignored
> the user's environment?
No idea what you are talking about, rpmbuild sets them, and it's
rpmbuild which sets them inside of build systems.

May-be you don't have redhat-rpm-config installed?

> If a package, indeed, needed some custom value for CFLAGS, CXXFLAGS
> and FFLAGS, 
Packages are not supposed to override these flags, they are supposed to
use them.

Ralf