Emacs: use flycheck in a codebase using autotools & make

Question

How do I simply use flycheck in a huge project that's got a good deal of specific CPP options and different include dirs, all handled at the ./configure phase? It's possible to get those paths from the config.log , but I don't see in flycheck doc an option to forward arbitrary gcc options.

I think it's a common enough use case. Or do people always have to write parsing scripts to marshal gcc options into flycheck-gcc-include-path (so flycheck can... translate it back into gcc options)?

Answer 1

flycheck-gcc-args lets you pass arbitrary options to GCC. You can add whatever compiler flags you want to this option.