I'm reading the section 5.7.2 (Communicating Variables to a Sub-make) and,
unless I missed something, I'm getting behavior I don't understand. I
have
a variable that I want to export to a sub-make. In the top-level
makefile, it gets assigned a value using "override VAR += value" (the base
value is
set from the command line). When the sub-make is invoked, only the
original
value is passed, and does not include the value from the += statement.
Why is this and how can I fix it?
The Makefile looks like:
=======================================
override VAR += extra
export VAR
all:
@echo $(VAR)
$(MAKE) -C dir
=======================================
and the second-level file is just:
=======================================
all:
@echo $(VAR)
=======================================
and I invoke this with "make VAR=value".
Thanks,
Michael
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