On Tue, 9 Dec 2008, Paul Smith wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-12-09 at 09:21 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > i didn't try it because i was going off what i read in ORA's book on
> > make where they explain the value of using the MAKE variable, and it
> > mentions nothing about passing that particular option, so i assumed it
> > didn't. if it actually does, then that solves the problem.
>
> All options and variables on the original make command line are always
> passed to sub-makes by default, except in a few very specific cases
> where it doesn't make much sense (things like -o, IIRC).
>
> Definitely -I is passed to sub-makes, though.
quite so, i just verified this -- i was only going on the words in
the ORA book which seemed to suggest that wasn't true. i'll know
better next time, thanks. :)
rday
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