Re: make -U

2003-07-31 Thread Garance A Drosihn
to do a fairly > obvious thing, yeah? What are the exact semantics of -U supposed to be? From the message in freebsd-hackers which first introduced this patch: - Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 09:09:17 -0700 - From: Faried Nawaz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Subject: patch to add make -U While workin

Re: make -U

2003-07-31 Thread Christian Weisgerber
Juli Mallett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why go thru those contortions? I sometimes use "make FOO=" to define > things. -U obviously has a place, if it not existing means I have to > have all these contortions to do a fairly obvious thing, yeah? What are the exact semantics of -U supposed to b

Re: make -U

2003-07-30 Thread Juli Mallett
* Ruslan Ermilov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [ Date: 2003-07-30 ] [ w.r.t. Re: make -U ] > On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 04:23:20PM -0500, Juli Mallett wrote: > > * Ruslan Ermilov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [ Date: 2003-07-30 ] > > [ w.r.t. make -U ] > > > Sorry, I&#x

Re: make -U

2003-07-30 Thread Ruslan Ermilov
On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 04:23:20PM -0500, Juli Mallett wrote: > * Ruslan Ermilov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [ Date: 2003-07-30 ] > [ w.r.t. make -U ] > > Sorry, I've accidentally dropped an email about `make -U'. > > > > I think that it's not need

Re: make -U

2003-07-30 Thread Juli Mallett
* Ruslan Ermilov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [ Date: 2003-07-30 ] [ w.r.t. make -U ] > Sorry, I've accidentally dropped an email about `make -U'. > > I think that it's not needed, since the functionality can > easily be achieved by running "make FOO=",

make -U

2003-07-30 Thread Ruslan Ermilov
Sorry, I've accidentally dropped an email about `make -U'. I think that it's not needed, since the functionality can easily be achieved by running "make FOO=", i.e., assigning an empty value. Remember that command line variables take precedence over globals, so the