[petsc-dev] CFLAGS and COPTFLAGS

[Satish Balay]

On Fri, 17 Jan 2014, Jed Brown wrote:

> As far as I know, this is not a widespread convention.  Lots of users
> put in CFLAGS=-O3 and either don't notice that it doesn't get used or
> are frustrated that it's not used.  Is the "auto" value of splitting out
> COPTFLAGS worth this confusion?  Or can we make the behavior more
> obvious?

This is primarily required for the option --with-debugging=0/1 [which
is also not a convention used by other packages]

Satish