[cfarm-users] Some issues with cfarm215

[Peter Gutmann]

Denis Ovsienko via cfarm-users <cfarm-users at lists.tetaneutral.net> writes:

>stress-ng uses an original make-only build system, I did not try it on
>Solaris, but on Haiku it worked good enough to fix the few broken bits. It
>detects OS features like Autoconf, but faster, before the main build, and
>what it cannot detect it expects the user to specify in environment variables.

That's what my code currently does, it tries to autoconfigure itself for every
target environment, which is why the shell script just for figuring out
compiler options is nearly 2,000 lines long (admittedly a lot of that is
comments, where the term "braindamage" features in several).  Particularly
entertaining is when the compiler reports via --help that it supports foo but
when you use foo it says it's not supported, but there are many more.  And
tricky are the ones where compiler options then affect linker options, so if
you specify CFLAGS=x then you also need LDFLAGS=y to match.

So the question was really, are some of the unusual configs on the cfarm
systems one-offs, or likely to be found in a lot of other systems out there?
In other words can I build with setting CFLAGS=x / LDFLAGS=y just for that
system or do I have to modify the configure scripts to handle even more
options?

Peter.