--- lzip-1.17.orig/configure 2015-07-09 18:58:33.000000000 +0200 +++ lzip-1.17/configure 2016-09-24 13:07:38.493476268 +0200 @@ -20,10 +20,10 @@ bindir='$(exec_prefix)/bin' datarootdir='$(prefix)/share' infodir='$(datarootdir)/info' mandir='$(datarootdir)/man' -CXX=g++ -CPPFLAGS= -CXXFLAGS='-Wall -W -O2' -LDFLAGS= +CXX?=g++ +CPPFLAGS?= +CXXFLAGS?='-Wall -W -O2' +LDFLAGS?= # checking whether we are using GNU C++. ${CXX} --version > /dev/null 2>&1