On Thu, 2024-01-11 at 00:37 -0500, Dmitry Goncharov wrote:
> You are designing a new feature, aren't you? Specifically, the
> ability to unset -e. If really needed, a makefile can reset -e on
> the command line for submake and have submake do the work.
> Alternatively, it is possible to
nset it.
> What I was thinking was that the handling of MAKEFLAGS would be changed
> so that the content of the MAKEFLAGS variable would be considered the
> source of truth, and the values of the global variables set by the
> command_switch array etc. would only be convenient sh
uot;enables" but the _lack_ of a switch never
> > "disables".
>
> right.
>
> >
> > In order to make this work we'd need to have a way to reset the
> > global settings to their default values.
>
> Here, i lost track. What do you mean by "
On Tue, Jan 9, 2024 at 5:35 PM Paul Smith wrote:
> Hi Dmitry;
Good morning, Paul.
> As an example, for the -e change I experimented with simply going
> through the variable database and switching the origin from o_env to
> o_env_override or vice versa.
Do you mean an alternative fix for
"disables".
In order to make this work we'd need to have a way to reset the global
settings to their default values. This means we'd need to reapply all
the settings.
So I wondered if maybe it wouldn't be worthwhile to change the handling
of MAKEFLAGS so the value of MAKEFLAGS was considered
