 configure.ac | 7 ++++---
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 96ffbac..e88b8e4 100755
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -61,7 +61,8 @@ AC_CANONICAL_HOST
 
 # set CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS
 user_CFLAGS=${CFLAGS}
-generic_CFLAGS="-Wall -Wno-strict-aliasing -g -gdwarf-2 -Wunused -Wuninitialized -ftemplate-depth-1024"
+generic_CFLAGS="-Wall -Wno-strict-aliasing -Wunused -Wuninitialized"
+generic_CXXFLAGS="-Wall -Wno-strict-aliasing -Wunused -Wuninitialized -ftemplate-depth-1024"
 ext_CFLAGS=""
 debug_CFLAGS=""
 #echo "${host_cpu}-${host_os}"
@@ -106,8 +107,8 @@ AC_ARG_ENABLE(profiling,      [  --enable-profiling        enable profiling with
 	  [ext_LDFLAGS="-lprofiler -ltcmalloc"], [])
 	  
 CFLAGS="${generic_CFLAGS} ${ext_CFLAGS} ${user_CFLAGS} ${debug_CFLAGS} ${OPENMP_CFLAGS}"
-CXXFLAGS="$CFLAGS"
-CXXFLAGS="${CXXFLAGS} ${BOOST_CPPFLAGS} ${BAM_CPPFLAGS} ${EIGEN_CPPFLAGS}"
+CXXFLAGS="${generic_CFLAGS} ${CXXFLAGS}"
+CPPFLAGS="${CPPFLAGS} ${BOOST_CPPFLAGS} ${BAM_CPPFLAGS} ${EIGEN_CPPFLAGS}"
 user_LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS"
 LDFLAGS="${ext_LDFLAGS} ${user_LDFLAGS}"
 
