Hello, The GNU make manual says :
" An argument that contains '=' specifies the value of a variable: 'v=x' sets the value of the variable v to x. If you specify a value in this way, all ordinary assignments of the same variable in the makefile are ignored; we say they have been overridden by the command line argument." This does not appear to work, here is my makefile: CFLAGS+ =foo# $(info $(CFLAGS+)) And there is my interaction with the Windows shell (I don't think this has anything to do with Windows, please correct me if I am wrong). Since CFLAGS+ is a legitimate make variable name, as shown in the first interaction, then the second interation should print "bar". C:\Temp>make foo make: *** No targets. Stop. C:\Temp>make CFLAGS+=bar foo make: *** No targets. Stop. In fact, what is happening, make CFLAGS+=bar, behaves exactly like make CFLAGS=bar. Please explain? In any case, how to work around this if I want to have a variable name with "+" overridden on command line, can I? I implemented a workaround in Windows shell to replace "+" with P, but I would rather do this in make syntax. Thank you, Mark _______________________________________________ Help-make mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-make
