With respect, this is another example of "I have been unable to make it
work."
The gcc/Makefile.in has this line in it:
$(foreach file,$(ALL_HOST_FRONTEND_OBJS),$(eval CFLAGS-$(file) +=
-DIN_GCC_FRONTEND))
At the point where gcc/cobol files are compiled, the environment variable
has this value:
CFLAGS-cobol/genapi.o is -DIN_GCC_FRONTEND
An attempt to override that with
make CFLAGS-cobol/genapi.o=-DHARMLESS
has no effect on the value of the CFLAGS-cobol/genapi.o
I commented out the $(foreach... line and tried to set the variable with
the make command.
Even then, CFLAGS-cobol/genapi.o did not seem to be set as a result.
I do not know why my attempts to set CFLAGS-cobol/genapi.o are failing.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andreas Schwab <sch...@suse.de>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 9, 2025 03:23
> To: Robert Dubner <rdub...@symas.com>
> Cc: Rainer Orth <r...@cebitec.uni-bielefeld.de>; gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] cobol: Implement CXXFLAGS_FOR_COBOL.
>
> On Jul 08 2025, Robert Dubner wrote:
>
> > Are you suggesting that I can somehow apply a specific set of flags
when
> > compiling, for example,
> >
> > gcc/cobol/genapi.cc
> >
> > If so, how could I do that?
>
> There are some examples in gcc/Makefile.in.
>
> CFLAGS-cobol/genapi.o = ...
>
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