Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 07:20:50 +1100 (EST) From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> Cc: <arch@FreeBSD.org>, Bruce Evans <bde@FreeBSD.org>, Pekka Savola <pekkas@netcore.fi> Subject: Re: MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX Message-ID: <20020225065837.F34027-100000@gamplex.bde.org> In-Reply-To: <20020222080208.GB81821@sunbay.com>
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On Fri, 22 Feb 2002, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > If I am reading the POSIX specs correctly, MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX could > be easily made to be honoured even if specified on a command line. > ... > The attached patch merely moves the `objdir' initialization below > the MainParseArgs() call, after all command line arguments have > already been parsed. Good idea. > To be honest, the current behavior does not contradict to POSIX > (which does not say anything about MAKEOBJDIR[PREFIX]), but the > proposed behavior would help users errouneously attempting to > set MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX on a command line. POSIX is mainly specifying the effect of macros on user makefiles, but I think setting macros on the command line should affect all of our make configuration files if this is not obviously wrong. > (It still does not work > if MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX is set as a make's global.) Do you mean globals in the make configuration files? Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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