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[Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>]

Quoting Andrew <afrayedknot AT thefrayedknot.armory.com>:
<snip>
> > Would we be able to modify LOCAL_OPTS (or CONF_OPTS as Seth points out) or
> would
> > it end up being non-modifiable the way OPTS already is?
>
> No it would be yours to use however you wanted, it would just get appended
> to ./configure options.

That's what I was hoping you'd say. :)

> > If we could have default_build have CONF_OPTS (or whatever) passed to
> > ./configure, then we could have CONFIGURE just use CONF_OPTS="neat stuff"
> and
> > not need extra BUILD files. Would this be too much work for the gain?
> Should
> > spells just do the OPTS="$OPTS $CONF_OPTS" in BUILD when they need it and
> add
> > CONF_OPTS to persistent_add where they want?
> I think thats what I was alluding to. Its not much work for us, but
> suffers from backwards compatibility problems, you'll have to stick with
> the short BUILD file then as time goes on remove them.

I think we could manage the wait if we do this. Anyone else have opinions?
Ideas?

-sandalle

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