%% Boris Kolpackov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
bk> "Paul D. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
bk> IMO, target-specific variable inheritance is quite useless feature
>>
>> It's useful for some situations
bk> Can you share them with us?
The canonical use is:
prog: prog1.o prog2.o
debug: prog
debug: CFLAGS += -g
>> but not for others.
bk> In all cases I know the difference between those situations is not
bk> qualitative therefore it often catches one off guard.
It only has surprising consequences if a single prerequisite can be
reached through multiple target paths where some paths have
target-specific variables and some don't (which isn't really that common
for most targets)... and it's only surprising if that's not what you
intended :).
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