Configure: disallow the mixture of compiling flags and env / make variables Note that this might give surprising results if someone forgets an environment variable that has been set previously. Reviewed-by: Andy Polyakov <appro@openssl.org> (Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/5534)

diff --git a/Configure b/Configure
index bb951bd..1b6a7b6 100755
--- a/Configure
+++ b/Configure

@@ -621,10 +621,10 @@
 			{
 			$user{$1} = ref $user{$1} eq "ARRAY" ? [] : undef;
 			}
-		if (exists $useradd{$1})
-			{
-			$useradd{$1} = [];
-			}
+		#if (exists $useradd{$1})
+		#	{
+		#	$useradd{$1} = [];
+		#	}
 		next;
 		}
 
@@ -891,6 +891,18 @@
 		}
 	}
 
+if (grep { scalar @$_ > 0 } values %useradd) {
+    my $detected_env = join(', ', grep { @{$useradd{$_}} || env($_) }
+                                  sort keys %useradd);
+    if ($detected_env) {
+        die <<"_____";
+***** Mixing env / make variables and additional compiler/linker flags as
+***** configure command line option is not permitted.
+***** Affected env / make variables: $detected_env
+_____
+    }
+}
+
 foreach (keys %user) {
     my $value = env($_);
     $value //= defined $user_synonyms{$_} ? env($user_synonyms{$_}) : undef;

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 3c8548d..0875833 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL

@@ -581,30 +581,12 @@
                    RCFLAGS         Flags for the Windows reources manipulator.
                    RM              The command to remove files and directories.
 
-                   These can be mixed with flags given on the command line.
-                   Any variable assignment resets any corresponding flags
-                   given before it, so for example:
+                   These cannot be mixed with compiling / linking flags given
+                   on the command line.  In other words, something like this
+                   isn't permitted.
 
                        ./config -DFOO CPPFLAGS=-DBAR -DCOOKIE
 
-                   Will end up having 'CPPFLAGS=-DBAR -DCOOKIE'.
-
-                   Here is how the flags documented above are collected as
-                   augmentation of these variables:
-
-                   -Dxxx           xxx is collected in CPPDEFINES
-                   -Ixxx           xxx is collected in CPPINCLUDES
-                   -Wp,xxx         collected in CPPFLAGS
-                   -Lxxx           collected in LDFLAGS
-                   -lxxx           collected in LDLIBS
-                   -Wp,xxx         collected in LDLIBS
-                   -rpath xxx      collected in LDLIBS
-                   -R xxx          collected in LDLIBS
-                   -framework xxx  collected in LDLIBS
-                   -static         collected in LDLIBS
-                   -xxx            collected in CFLAGS
-                   +xxx            collected in CFLAGS
-
   reconf
   reconfigure
                    Reconfigure from earlier data.  This fetches the previous