Hi there,
On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 05:31:01PM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
>> make VAR=VAL # .MAKEFLAGS is empty
>> make -DVAR # .MAKEFLAGS is '-D VAR'
> Heh, was looking at this NetBSD commitlog today looking for another
> thing. They apparently have this bug fixed as well, in the step 3
> below:
:: 3. Variables set via command line, are propagated to child-makes via
:: MAKEFLAGS. This behaviour appears to be necessary for POSIX (according
:: to the GNU folk anyway).
So what will The Right Thing be:
- to take ``make'' from NetBSD
- to transfer corresponding changes from NetBSD
- to re-make my patch (to store the command line variables in MAKEFLAGS,
not in the new variable)?
Of course, I cannot perform first choice but I can do second or third ones.
SY, Alex
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