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  <section id="root_option">
    <varlistentry>
      <term><literal>root</literal></term>
      
      <!-- At present, this option is only used to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH
      when running tests, and matters only if compiler's lib directory
      is not in LD_LIBRARY_PATH -->

      <listitem><para>Specifies root directory of the compiler
      installation. This option is necessary only if it's not possible
      to detect this information from the compiler command&#x2014;for
      example if the specified compiler command is a user script. </para>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>
  </section>

  <section id="common_options">
    
    <varlistentry>
      <term><literal>cflags</literal></term>
      
      <listitem><para>Specifies additional compiler flags that
      will be used when compiling C sources.</para>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>
    
    <varlistentry>
      <term><literal>cxxflags</literal></term>
      
      <listitem><para>Specifies additional compiler flags that
      will be used when compiling C++ sources.</para>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry>
      <term><literal>compileflags</literal></term>
      
      <listitem><para>Specifies additional compiler flags that
      will be used when compiling both C and C++ sources.</para>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry>
      <term><literal>linkflags</literal></term>
      
      <listitem><para>Specifies additional command line options
      that will be passed to the linker.</para>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

  </section>

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