bug#13775: 24.3.50; Omissions in documentation for crash reporting

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 23.02.2013 1:44, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2013 01:26:21 +0400
> > From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
> > CC: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, 13775@debbugs.gnu.org
> >
> > On 22.02.2013 13:37, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> > > Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru> writes:
> > >
> > > > 'CFLAGS="-g3" make' doesn't.
> > >
> > > As expected and documented.
> > >
> > > > 'make CFLAGS="-g3"' does work, but AFAIK that's not the usual way of
> > > > binding an environment variable value.
> > >
> > > This is wrong.  Environment variables never override makefile variables.
> >
> > Sorry, what's wrong, exactly? My expectations, my retelling, or the way
> > it actually works?
>
> Your expectations that putting a variable into the environment will
> override Make variable that is assigned in the Makefile.  (If a
> variable is not assigned in the Makefile, but used by one of its
> rules, Make will use the value in the environment.)

I expected it may get picked up in some special way. ./configure does 
that, after all, and it also shells out during execution.

> And anyway, 'CFLAGS="-g3" make' doesn't export CFLAGS into the
> environment of programs run by the shell, so this method is simply
> wrong, for reasons that have nothing to do with Emacs.

So, I was doubly wrong. Thanks for elaboration. :)