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> As second step, I think that the CFLAGS environment variable passed to
> configure should be made to init the BASECFLAGS Makefile variable, since
> that's what the user would expect (if he knew how the system works).

I still think that such a patch would be flawed, because it *still*
wouldn't follow the standards used in other OSS software, where setting
CFLAGS overrides *ALL* settings that configure may have come up with.

So if a CFLAGS environment variables is to be considered, it needs to
be considered correctly.