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Re: new build scheme naming
On Mon, Jul 08, 2002 at 04:01:17PM -0400, DJ Delorie wrote:
>
> > That actually *works*? It doesn't fail because the million Make
> > variables passed down from the top level are missing?...
>
> Yup, I do that all the time. For normal builds, the variables passed
> down happen to be the defaults anyway, so it doesn't matter. But for
> some things (like, say, building target libraries) it's more important
> to be called from the top so that you get the variables. GCC's make
> just happens to work without them, that's all.
>
> > Why are we passing all these variables down to lower level makes?
>
> In case you need to override them on an all-build basis.
Mmm, right; I guess certain makes don't automatically pass down
variables specified on the command line.
--Nathanael