%% 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. not a big deal, but i'm just curious as to why the leading
>> hyphen goes missing. and the docs don't seem to make any mention of
>> that.
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.
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