Re: Rawhide debuginfo packages with no sources

[Ville Skyttä <ville skytta iki fi>]

On Wednesday 22 April 2009, Jerry James wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 3:20 PM, Jesse Keating <jkeating redhat com> wrote:
> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Compiler_flags
> > could certainly use some details on /how/ to apply RPM_OPT_FLAGS
> > correctly (and why aren't these just autoapplied?)
>
> I've seen a number of cases where the upstream developers think they
> know the best compiler flags to use, so they ignore the usual means of
> supplying CFLAGS and just set their own.  This means that the /how/
> you are asking for involves manual inspection of configuration scripts
> and makefiles.  Fun for the whole family!

Right.  But thankfully most packages' upstreams don't do that, and using 
%configure, %cmake* and possibly some other macros gets optflags autoapplied 
just fine.  And this could be a good generic improvement for others: 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/473602