[OpenAFS-devel] debug/optimize flags in Makefiles...

[Derek Atkins]

Derrick J Brashear <shadow@dementia.org> writes:

> > But they're not tested for now, the information is hard-coded in to
> > MakefileProto.  Seems to me it would be just as good, maybe better, to
> > hard-code it in configure.in.
> 
> Probably, but I kept hoping someone would come up with a better way to
> solve the problem, and so never did the work.

I think if all the information is in the configure script then we
would be one-step closer to auto-generating the information.  I think
centralizing all the 'choices' into autoconf is step one.  Then making
autoconf smarter is step two. ;)

Changing something that is hard-coded in multiple places into
something that is hard-coded in one place is the first step.  Then we
can work on fixing the hard-codings, one at a time.

Even if I wanted to, I couldn't autogenerate the Makefile and param
file for Linux without doing it for all the other platforms, too.  If
we centralize it first, then we can autogenerate on a per-platform
basis, piecemeal. :)

> -D

-derek

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