Merge pull request #571 from jdduke/fix_cmake

Fix issue with CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS initialization

CMakeLists.txt

@@ -62,9 +62,9 @@ if( CMAKE_COMPILER_IS_MINGW )
 endif()
 
 if((CMAKE_COMPILER_IS_GNUCC OR CMAKE_COMPILER_IS_GNUCXX) AND NOT CMAKE_COMPILER_IS_MINGW)
-    set(CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS "-fPIC") # this is a very important switch and some libraries seem now to have it....
+    set(CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS "${CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS} -fPIC") # this is a very important switch and some libraries seem now to have it....
     # hide all not-exported symbols
-    set(CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS "-fvisibility=hidden -Wall" )
+    set(CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS "${CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS} -fvisibility=hidden -Wall" )
 elseif(MSVC)
     # enable multi-core compilation with MSVC
     add_definitions(/MP)