I don't know. I guess it was put there for a reason.
Some cvs digging in the GTK module reveals that the first step in that direction (removing the -g flag) was made by Per back in 1999 with the log message "Fixed makefile".
In the GL module, Grubba added a filter for all the flags -g, -W and -O with the message "Attempt at fixing a few warnings." If nothing else, it's strange to remove -g and -O flags for that reason.
/ Martin Stjernholm, Roxen IS
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2004-02-16 10:52: Subject: Pike 7.4.28 bug report
How about
CFLAGS="$(CFLAGS)"
? Do we really need this strange stuff?
/ Marcus Comstedt (ACROSS) (Hail Ilpalazzo!)