Added OURDEFS to DEFS in Makefile.am, to restore it in the Makefile. Updated documen...

diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 44bc82f..df57aa8 100644 (file)
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -44,8 +44,8 @@ a.out.DSYM/
 /mts/libmts.a
 /sbr/*.a
 /sbr/sigmsg.h
-/test/testbuild
-/test/testinstall
+/test/testbuild/
+/test/testinstall/
 /uip/ali
 /uip/anno
 /uip/ap

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 71a9004..feea184 100644 (file)
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -119,23 +119,35 @@ need an ANSI C compiler such as gcc.
 -----------------------------------------------
 Compiler options, or using a different compiler
 -----------------------------------------------
-By default, configure will use the "gcc" compiler if found.  You can use a
-different compiler, or add unusual options for compiling or linking that
-the "configure" script does not know about, by either editing the user
-configuration section of the top level Makefile (after running configure)
-or giving "configure" initial values for these variables by setting them
-in the environment.  Using a Bourne-compatible shell (such as sh,ksh,zsh),
-
-you can do that on the command line like this:
+
+By default, configure will use the "gcc" compiler if found.  You can
+use a different compiler, or add unusual options for compiling or
+linking that the "configure" script does not know about, by giving
+"configure" initial values for these in its environment.  Using a
+Bourne-compatible shell, such as sh, ksh, zsh, or bash, you can do
+that on the command line like this:
     CC=c89 CFLAGS=-O2 LIBS=-lposix ./configure
 
 Or on systems that have the "env" program, you can do it like this:
     env CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include LDFLAGS=-s ./configure
 
-If you want to add to, not replace, compile flags, you can use
-OURDEFS with env or like this:
+If you want to add to, not replace, compile flags, you can use OURDEFS
+with env or like this:
     OURDEFS='-Wextra -Wno-sign-compare' ./configure
 
+If you want to add to both compile and link flags at build time
+without putting them in the configuration, you can use an otherwise
+unused Makefile macro, like this:
+    make AM_CFLAGS=--coverage
+
+That does not include that setting in the configuration, so you will
+have to repeat it if you re-run "make".  One example would be if you
+build the test suite as a separate step:
+    make test AM_CFLAGS=--coverage
+
+Though note that the Makefile test target depends on the default
+target, so both be can built in one step with "make test".
+
 ----------------------------------------
 Building nmh on additional architectures
 ----------------------------------------

diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am
index 56178f9..ee9b511 100644 (file)
--- a/Makefile.am
+++ b/Makefile.am
@@ -31,6 +31,11 @@ MHNSEARCHPROG = $(srcdir)/etc/mhn.find.sh
 auxexecdir = @libdir@
 
 ##
+## For backward compatibility, include OURDEFS in DEFS.  See INSTALL.
+##
+DEFS = @DEFS@ @OURDEFS@
+
+##
 ## nmh _does_ have a test suite!
 ##
 testdir = $(srcdir)/test