Sunday, February 28, 2021

Re: cmake.port.mk cmake-configure-args improvement

On Sun, Feb 28, 2021 at 09:41:51AM +0000, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> Ports doesn't currently "officially" honour LDFLAGS like it does
> CFLAGS/CXXFLAGS. It does seem useful but wants documenting somewhere (and it
> seems a bit odd to use it automatically for cmake and not autoconf).
>
> "This causes cmake to add -pthread to the depends list in stead of
> -lpthread." - we haven't used that since moving away from userland threads,
> -lpthread is fine.

The thing is, it's much easier to pass stuff like LDFLAGS through
CONFIGURE_ENV. Here, you got so many different knobs, it gets to be
annoying.

Now maybe we should make things more or less default as well.

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