Re: Target-specific CFLAGS

[Ben Pfaff]

Bob Friesenhahn <address@hidden> writes:

> On Tue, 24 Feb 2004, Ben Pfaff wrote:
>> >
>> > Of course, when my source files are C++ files the _CFLAGS extension does
>> > nothing.  Changing this to _CPPFLAGS fixed the problem.  Duh.
>>
>> You know that CPPFLAGS is for the C preprocessor and CXXFLAGS is
>> for the C++ compiler, right?
>
> This distinction is not entirely correct since CPPFLAGS is normally
> supplied to the C++ compiler as well.  CFLAGS is for the C compiler
> and CXXFLAGS is for the C++ compiler.

Well, yes: C++ uses the C preprocessor.
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