Preserve CFLAGS from the environment. --- configure.orig 2006-02-21 02:03:22.000000000 -0600 +++ configure 2021-07-06 18:36:00.000000000 -0500 @@ -20864,7 +20864,7 @@ -CFLAGS="-Wall -pipe" +CFLAGS="${CFLAGS} -Wall -pipe" DEBUG_cflags="-g -Wunused -Wshadow -Wpointer-arith -Wbad-function-cast -Wcast-qual -Wcast-align -Wwrite-strings -Wsign-compare -Waggregate-return -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wmissing-noreturn -Wformat -Wredundant-decls -Wnested-externs -Winline -pedantic" OPTIMIZE="-O3" PROFILE="-g -pg"