Re: [gnome-love] Set CFLAGS for a single module using jhbuild

[Mariano Suárez-Alvarez <msuarezalvarez arnet com ar>]

On Mon, 2007-02-19 at 14:35 +0100, Iago Toral Quiroga wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm building Gnome through jhbuild with coverage support, thus, I have
> these settings in my .jhbuildrc file:
> 
> os.environ['CFLAGS'] = '-fprofile-arcs -ftest-coverage'
> os.environ['CXXFLAGS'] = '-fprofile-arcs -ftest-coverage'
> 
> It works ok for all modules except mozilla, which is not able to link:
> 
> /usr/bin/ld: mozilla-xremote-client: hidden symbol `__gcov_execv'
> in /usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.1.2/libgcov.a(_gcov_execv.o) is
> referenced by DSO
> /usr/bin/ld: final link failed: Nonrepresentable section on output
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> 
> I'm trying to disable coverage support _only_ for mozilla (unset the
> coverage CFLAGS). Reviewing the jhbuild manual the only way I found to
> do this is using module_makeargs, like:
> 
> module_makeargs['mozilla'] = 'CFLAGS=""'
> that would be equivalent to:
> make CFLAGS=""
> however this breaks mozilla compilation, what I would like to do is:
> CFLAGS= make
> that works fine.
> 
> Is there a way to instruct jhbuild to set CFLAGS for a particular module
> so it works exactly as in the above example?

You cannot set environment variables for building a particular module in
jhbuild, AFAIK. It would not be a lot of work to change jhbuild to add a
module_makeenv dictionary which the obvious meaning, though.

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Mariano Su�z-Alvarez
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