[orbitcpp-list] Build issues and questions

[Braden M. <br...@en...>]

Some build issues and questions...

        1. The current build overwrites the user variables CFLAGS and
           CXXFLAGS. Generally, you want to use the automake variables
           AM_CFLAGS and AM_CXXFLAGS for compiler options that should be
           provided by the build scripts. But... the options that the
           build is putting in CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS ("-g -O0") are the
           kind of options that the user should provide. I have fixed
           this and I can provide a patch.
        2. The build system winds up redundantly defining some
           variables, and automake 1.5 spews warnings as a result. I
           have fixed this and I can provide a patch.
        3. The project does the exact opposite of what the libtool
           documentation recommends, and ties it's package version
           number to the library version number. How come?
        4. A number of the tests build with "-static" in CXXFLAGS.
           AFAICT, this is a linker option, so it should go in LDFLAGS.
           But why is it being used?
        5. The build currently creates and installs a static library for
           the IDL compiler. Unless I'm missing something, this is
           completely useless. I think I can fix this, but I think it
           would involved creating an additional configure script just
           for the compiler. This script would be called by the main
           configure script (see AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS). I'd be happy to
           work on this, but first I wanted to make sure there's
           interest in such a change.

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Braden McDaniel                           e-mail: <br...@en...>
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