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[Roger House <>]

I just began using CGAL on Linux, and I was happy to discover cgal_create_makefile which conveniently creates a makefile tailored to my system.  However, I'm unclear on how to supply additional parameters to g++.  For example, I have an h file which I need to tell g++ about.  So I would like to add the parameter -Iwhatever to the g++ call.  The only way I have found to do this is to edit makefile so that this statement

    CXXFLAGS = \
               $(CGAL_CXXFLAGS) \
               $(LONG_NAME_PROBLEM_CXXFLAGS)

becomes this

    CXXFLAGS = -Iwhatever \
               $(CGAL_CXXFLAGS) \
               $(LONG_NAME_PROBLEM_CXXFLAGS)

Is there a way to do this that does not modify the makefile?  Perhaps something like

    make SOMEFLAGS=-Iwhatever

where SOMEFLAGS will be taken account of by the makefile?

Thank you for your help.

Roger House