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Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 00:20:45 +0400
From: Alex Semenyaka <alexs@ratmir.ru>
To: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG>
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Subject: Re: make(1) command-line variables
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Hi there, 

On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 05:31:01PM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
>> make VAR=VAL	# .MAKEFLAGS is empty
>> make -DVAR	# .MAKEFLAGS is '-D VAR'
> Heh, was looking at this NetBSD commitlog today looking for another
> thing.  They apparently have this bug fixed as well, in the step 3
> below:
:: 3. Variables set via command line, are propagated to child-makes via
::    MAKEFLAGS.  This behaviour appears to be necessary for POSIX (according
::    to the GNU folk anyway).

So what will The Right Thing be:
 - to take ``make'' from NetBSD
 - to transfer corresponding changes from NetBSD
 - to re-make my patch (to store the command line variables in MAKEFLAGS,
   not in the new variable)?

Of course, I cannot perform first choice but I can do second or third ones.

								SY, Alex


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