On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 12:14:15PM -0600, Jeffrey C. Ollie wrote: > cat > Makefile.config <<EOF > prefix = /usr/local > bash_completion_dir = /etc/bash_completion.d >-CFLAGS += ${have_valgrind} >+CFLAGS += ${have_valgrind} ${strndup} ${getline} > EOF This doesn't seem to do much for me, they don't seem to end up in the args passed to g++. I'm no Makefile wizard, so I got notmuch finally compiling by simply copy/pasting the ${strndup} and ${getline} from Makefile.config to Makefile: # Now smash together user's values with our extra values override CFLAGS += $(WARN_FLAGS) $(extra_cflags) -Dstrndup=_notmuch_strndup -Dgetline=_notmuch_getline override CXXFLAGS += $(WARN_FLAGS) $(extra_cflags) $(extra_cxxflags) -Dstrndup=_notmuch_strndup -Dgetline=_notmuch_getline -- - Marten