[OTR-dev] Build on x86_64

Ian Goldberg ian at cypherpunks.ca
Fri Dec 17 16:27:39 EST 2004


On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 10:10:22PM +0100, Paul Wouters wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Dec 2004, Ian Goldberg wrote:
> 
> >Would this patch work?  Can someone on x64 try it?
> 
> >+GAIMDIR = /usr/lib/gaim
> 
> Shouldn't that be:
> 
> +GAIMDIR ?= /usr/lib/gaim
> 
> so we can override it on the make line?

I'm pretty sure what I said was right.  ?= lets it be overridden by
*environment variables*.  But command line settings trump all assignments
in the Makefile not explicitly marked "override".  [That's why we had to
add "override" to the CFLAGS line.]

   - Ian



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