On Wed, Jul 15, 2020, at 9:52 AM, Petr Menšík wrote:
> Did you know both BSD make and GNU make allows to override variables on
> command line?
Yeah we are just going with that, based on the feedback so far.
> However, should not be this updated
> just by different PATH order?
we have a prefixed
On Sun, Jul 12, 2020, at 5:22 PM, Pali Rohár wrote:
>
> But why is this change needed at all? Are there some bugs in GNU make so
> that macros/variables initialized by '=' cannot be overridden and
> initialization with '?=' is fixing those bugs?
Definitions with = can still be overridden on the
On Sun, Jul 12, 2020, at 3:05 PM, Pali Rohár wrote:
> "FOO ?= foo" syntax is not supported by POSIX make:
> https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/make.html
>
> And requires some GNU Make extension.
>
> I guess because dnsmasq is supported also on non-GNU Make systems, it
>
Hi, I am another NixOS maintainer.
Yes, it is true that ?= in makefiles is somewhat rare, and that we can work
around this other ways. But it was I who proposed the ?= change on our side[1],
so let say why I think it's the right choice:
Most C packages don't use "?=" and do
FOO ?= foo
but
