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To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/i386 Makefile 
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Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1998 03:16:55 -0700
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> No, ideal for changing the default a whole subtree is to put the change
> in Makefile.inc at the top of the tree and inherit this recursively.
> The MAKEFLAGS hack fails for normal builds (when `make' is run in a leaf
> directory) because it doesn't affect the current invocation of make.

Aha, thanks for giving words to my earlier misgivings.  I knew there
was something distinctly wrong with that approach, but I couldn't come
up with a quick example.  The leaf directory make is indeed a good
one.

- Jordan