On Tue, Jun 09, 2020 at 09:36:43AM -0700, David Boyce wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 9, 2020 at 9:21 AM Dmitry Goncharov
> wrote:
> > You mean for target specific simple variable memory is allocated and
> > the variable is initialized only if the target is built, right?
> Yes, that's the suggestion I was
Follow-up Comment #2, bug #58529 (project make):
make manual specifies that the only thing legal to do with MAKEOVERRIDES is to
reset it.
Why do you want to set new contents of MAKEOVERRIDES? MAKEOVERRIDES is not
intended for this use.
You can override a variable using override.
override FOO=z
Follow-up Comment #2, bug #58639 (project make):
Paul, do you think we can describe this scenario this explicitly in the doc?
E.g.
diff --git a/doc/make.texi b/doc/make.texi
index 733c0b9..9c625d7 100644
--- a/doc/make.texi
+++ b/doc/make.texi
@@ -10342,9 +10342,9 @@ A pattern rule can be used
