Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2004 13:45:48 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Harti Brandt <harti@FreeBSD.org> Cc: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/make Makefile main.c nonints.h var.c Message-ID: <200408091345.48263.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20040809174540.U32590@beagle.kn.op.dlr.de> References: <7mllgolwsk.wl@black.imgsrc.co.jp> <20040809.094110.04712576.imp@bsdimp.com> <20040809174540.U32590@beagle.kn.op.dlr.de>
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On Monday 09 August 2004 11:54 am, Harti Brandt wrote: > On Mon, 9 Aug 2004, M. Warner Losh wrote: > > MWL>In message: <20040809.092824.11587387.imp@bsdimp.com> > MWL>: The current man page is stunningly vague about this. It says that it > MWL>: respects these environment variables, but it doesn't say they have to > MWL>: be set in the enviornment to the exclusion of setting them on the > MWL>: command line. > MWL> > MWL>So either we can make it work, or document that the variables listed > MWL>in the environment section must be set as environment variables only. > > There is nothing to be made work. Both variables are intended to be used > as environment variables. That they happend to work from the command line > was a side effect of make putting its variables into the environment. > Does the following clarify things enough? Doesn't change the fact that it can break existing scripts. I typically do % worldloop -j 64 MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX=/usr/obj.test on my test boxes (worldloop is a script that does a 'make buildworld "$@"' in a loop). Can't be fixed I guess. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org
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