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sr #110387: Document better where to put -m32 or -m64 compiler options

Submitter:  Bruno Haible <haible>
Submitted:  Tue 01 Dec 2020 10:00:50 PM UTC
   
 
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Tue 01 Dec 2020 11:20:25 PM UTC, comment #1: 

Thanks for the documentation improvement; I installed it.

Paul Eggert <eggert>
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Tue 01 Dec 2020 10:00:50 PM UTC, original submission:  

The section about CFLAGS in section "Preset Output Variables" https://www.gnu.org/savannah-checkouts/gnu/autoconf/manual/autoconf-2.69/html_node/Preset-Output-Variables.html was written in 2006, see https://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=autoconf.git;a=commitdiff;h=63b0709b9482f1a282d584239d3bcb016633d7cf .

This text considers the habits of Makefile authors and of Automake, when to use CC with CFLAGS and CPPFLAGS (namely for preprocessing and compiling to object files) vs. CC with CFLAGS and LDFLAGS (namely for linking).

However, another use of CC is in config.guess, when the user has not provided a --host option. Here, at least nowadays, CC is used without CFLAGS, CPPFLAGS, nor LDFLAGS.

This variable is used on GNU/Linux, Solaris, HP-UX systems to determine whether the build produces 32-bit or 64-bit binaries, and sets the host_cpu portion of the config.guess result accordingly. See https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/config-patches/2018-12/msg00012.html .

When users put -m32 or -m64 options into variables other than CC, this detection does not work and causes problems thereafter. See https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2020-12/msg00012.html for an example.

Find attached a patch to the Autoconf documentation, to make it clear that -m32 or -m64 options need to go into CC.

Bruno Haible <haible>

 

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    2020-12-01 eggert StatusNone Done
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    2020-12-01 haible Attached File- Added 0001-Document-better-where-to-put-m32-or-m64-compiler-opt.patch, #50370

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