On Fri, 7 Jan 2005, Paul D. Smith wrote:
> %% Ken Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> >> and print the value of ${MAKEFLAGS}, what i get is "I /a/b/c". but if
> >> i have multiple options, all subsequent options will have the leading
> >> hyphen.
>
> ks> I confirmed this behavior. Seems strange to me too. However, the
> ks> option's effect gets properly propogated to a submake.
>
> I don't know what the original authors were thinking (smoking...?
> :-)) when they came up with this, but it's standard behavior across
> all versions of make, going back in time, and is specified by the
> POSIX definition of make.
i'm assuming it was to let them be able to write "-${MAKEFLAGS}", but
that doesn't strike me as a really compelling reason. it would be
interesting to know what they *were* thinking. so you don't know the
rationale, then? pity.
rday
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