<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 00:47, Sean Farley <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sean@mcs.anl.gov">sean@mcs.anl.gov</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
So, this is basically what I think Barry meant ... except the whole /*R <flags> R*/ part. </blockquote></div><br><div>I would want something equivalently verbose because it's HUMAN documentation for how the variables are spelled. Even if the build system is clairvoyant such that it knows what package each header comes from and which variables it needs to link with, a human won't know that and likely won't know where to find out. Spelling out those variables, which they can query through the makefile include, a CMake include, or Python (preferably with the same spelling in each case) makes it understandable.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I don't care about the specifics of the syntax, but I think the variables should be spelled out.</div>