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Date:      Wed, 4 Aug 2004 12:14:52 +0200
From:      Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net>
To:        Hartmut Brandt <harti@freebsd.org>
Cc:        cvs-all@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/make Makefile main.c nonints.h var.c
Message-ID:  <20040804121452.51ca6d98@Magellan.Leidinger.net>
In-Reply-To: <200408031856.i73IuV8c082723@repoman.freebsd.org>
References:  <200408031856.i73IuV8c082723@repoman.freebsd.org>

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On Tue, 3 Aug 2004 18:56:31 +0000 (UTC)
Hartmut Brandt <harti@freebsd.org> wrote:

> harti       2004-08-03 18:56:31 UTC
> 
>   FreeBSD src repository
> 
>   Modified files:
>     usr.bin/make         Makefile main.c nonints.h var.c 
>   Log:
>   Put variable assignments from the command line into the MAKEFLAGS
>   variable as required by POSIX. This causes such variables to be
>   pushed into all sub-makes called by the make (except when the MAKEFLAGS
>   variable is explicitely changed in the sub-make's environment).
>   This makes them also mostly un-overrideable in sub-makes except on the
>   sub-make's command line. Therefor specifying 'make CC=icc' will cause
>   icc to be used as C compiler in all sub-makes no matter what the Makefiles
>   itself try to do to the CC variable.

Yeah!

Does this mean I can override the CFLAGS from make.conf now with 'make
"CFLAGS=foo bar"'?

Does this also apply to environment variables (CFLAGS="foo bar" make)?

Bye,
Alexander.

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