From fcfcd1298f6ea1fcfb2b2b5a529303270aa800d9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Modestas Vainius <modax@debian.org>
Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2011 23:53:14 +0300
Subject: Always respect DEB_${flag}_{APPEND,SET} envvars.

Do that even when dpkg-buildpackage modifies environment variables. Also
document DEB_${flag}_{APPEND,SET} as recommended way to override standard build
flags.
---
 dh_auto_configure | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

(limited to 'dh_auto_configure')

diff --git a/dh_auto_configure b/dh_auto_configure
index daf5ed04..f08c0f6f 100755
--- a/dh_auto_configure
+++ b/dh_auto_configure
@@ -28,6 +28,11 @@ This is intended to work for about 90% of packages. If it doesn't work,
 you're encouraged to skip using B<dh_auto_configure> at all, and just run
 F<./configure> or its equivalent manually.
 
+In order to override standard build flags, export appropriate environment
+variables as documented in the L<dpkg-buildflags(1)> manual page. They will be
+preferred over directly exported their counterparts (CFLAGS, CXXFLAGS, LDFLAGS
+etc.).
+
 =head1 OPTIONS
 
 See L<debhelper(7)/B<BUILD SYSTEM OPTIONS>> for a list of common build
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