On Thu, 2021-05-06 at 09:48 -0700, David Boyce wrote: > The manual doesn't actually say that MAKEOVERRIDES is exported like > MAKEFLAGS but I assume it is.
No, it's not. The value of MAKEOVERRIDES is used within the makefile itself. Its value is added to the MAKEFLAGS variable when invoking a sub-make. The only environment variable make uses to communicate between one make and its sub-make is via MAKEFLAGS.
