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Re: Rd: Using the same options for compiling and linking
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Paul Smith |
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Re: Rd: Using the same options for compiling and linking |
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Tue, 07 May 2013 16:15:17 -0400 |
On Mon, 2013-05-06 at 08:05 -0800, Britton Kerin wrote:
> Assigning to MAKEFLAGS only affects sub-makes, despite this (wrong)
> paragraph from the documentation:
>
> MAKEFLAGS
> The flags given to make. You can set this in the environment
> or a makefile to set flags. See Communicating Options to a
> Sub-make.
Just to be clear: many options _can_ be set in MAKEFLAGS in the makefile
and they will take effect in the current instance. Unfortunately, -r is
not one of those, mainly due to some knotty setup/initialization issues.