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Date:      Sat, 2 Aug 2003 00:11:56 +1000 (EST)
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        Gordon Tetlow <gordon@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/rescue/rescue Makefile
Message-ID:  <20030802000356.P1436@gamplex.bde.org>
In-Reply-To: <200308010904.h7194W4a061763@repoman.freebsd.org>
References:  <200308010904.h7194W4a061763@repoman.freebsd.org>

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On Fri, 1 Aug 2003, Gordon Tetlow wrote:

> gordon      2003/08/01 02:04:32 PDT
>
>   FreeBSD src repository
>
>   Modified files:
>     rescue/rescue        Makefile
>   Log:
>   When using crunchgen, blow away MAKEFLAGS. This fixes make -j <#> -P
>   from passing the -P flag to crunchgen which seems to confuse crunchgen
>   horribly.

Doesn't also prevent make -j <#> -P from passing the -j <#> flag and any
other useful flags that may be in MAKEFLAGS?

>   This is the preferable solution to modifing crunchgen to
>   unset the MAKEFLAGS environment variable.

Certainly, since unsetting MAKEFLAGS very generally would be more likely
to lose something important in it.

Setting MAKEFLAGS to ${MAKEFLAGS:N-P} might be safe enough to do generally.

Bruce



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