Hi all i hope this is the correct place to post this question!

I am trying to put the following optimisations into a script that i can call if i want to compile apache (or anything) for a web server. I can do an "export" on the command line and see these variables using env but if i put them in an (chmod 755) file then run it they seem not to be set. I am running slackware 10.1 and manually created /etc/bashrc with these entrys but with no joy. I also tried to add them to the /etc/profile.

export CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4"
export MAKEOPTS="-j5"
export CXXFLAGS=$CFLAGS

my eventual goal is to be able to build any software without specifically typing these 3 lines.


Thanks in advance.

In 99% of the cases you do this when you compile program:
I would stay with this. Making those changes global can only cause trouble

You could also put them in a script in /usr/local/bin and call the script every time you run configure,

something like my_flags:
then try :

Thanks for the reply, i see that setting these options globally maybe just asking for some problems but i still cannot put these lines in a script and work - if i do an env after i have run the script i see no entries for CFLAGS or MAKEOPTS but if i type them directly to the command line and do an env i can see these settings set, this is my problem.

Again thanks for the help.