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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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Subject: Re: MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX
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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


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