[opam-devel] passing through environment variables to builds

[Peter Zotov]

On 2014-12-04 13:29, Anil Madhavapeddy wrote:
> I'm having trouble compiling crypto-related libraries on MacOSX and
> OpenBSD, since it requires:
> 
> CFLAGS="-I/usr/local/include" LDFLAGS="-I/usr/local/lib"
> 
> to be passed in the environment.  Our "conf-gmp" package currently
> just does a "cc -c gmp.c" which is very unlikely to work portably.

I believe this should be done at the compiler level. Requiring every
native package to figure out what CFLAGS/LDFLAGS the current platform
wants is unreasonable.

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Peter Zotov