Subject: Re: Bug#613046: debian-policy: please update example in 4.9.1 (debian/rules and DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS)

From: Julien Cristau <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2011 15:19:27 +0100

On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 15:14:04 +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote:

> That said helper tools like "dh" should be free to use dpkg-buildflags
> to set environment variables that ./configure and other similar calls
> can inspect and use.
> 
The usual way to pass CFLAGS to configure is as a command line argument,
not an env var.

Cheers,
Julien