[petsc-dev] [Bitbucket] Pull request #375: Pass LDFLAGS down to GNUPackage externalpackages. (petsc/petsc)

[Satish Balay]

On Mon, 12 Oct 2015, Barry Smith wrote:

> > We currently don't pass in LDFLAGS - but we can do that with the patch
> > I mentioned.
> 
>   Ok, pass down the LDFLAGS but ONLY if the user provided LDFLAGS otherwise we should not be passing in a LDFLAGS="'" to the sub packages
> 

Why the 'only'? What would be the problem with passing LDFLAGS=""?

I've run all the nightlybuilds with the broken next with my patch -
which I think effectively does LDFLAGS="" - and the build go through
without problems.

Satish