A bit tangential to the overall direction the discussion took, but i'd like to comment on:
On Wed, 30 Oct 2002 18:58:50 GMT, "Paul D. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:15808.11242.603751.468393@;lemming.engeast.baynetworks.com: > Command-line overrides take precedence over variable settings, > even target-specific variable settings. You'd have to do this: > > $(LIBOBJ): override CFLAGS += -fpic > > although I'm not sure if that actually works or not :). It has for me! I've certainly used that construct and admire it quite a lot. It's very pretty in my eyes: it is clear exactly what it does, and to whom ;-). > Typically what one does is _NOT_ use CFLAGS for this; as per the GNU > standards you use a different variable in the makefile to store C > compiler flags and you let users have CFLAGS for their own use. Then > you just put both variables into the compile line. Yes, that's true. Best, Soren A _______________________________________________ Help-make mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-make
