Re: [PATCH] fix passing MAKEINFOFLAGS down to sub-makes

[Franz Sirl <Franz dot Sirl-kernel at lauterbach dot com>]

At 00:47 24.06.99 , Jeffrey A Law wrote:

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>   > Hi,
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>   > the toplevel Makefile doesn't handle MAKEINFO/MAKEINFOFLAGS correctly.
>   > Currently neither setting MAKEINFO="makeinfo --no-split" nor setting
>   > MAKEINFOFLAGS="--no-split" has the desired effect. The attached patch 
> fixes
>   > this. It should go both into the mainline and the branch.
>I'd prefer not to do this.  It doesn't fix a critical bug and I don't want to
>burn time messing around with too much make/configury junk knowing it's going
>to get revamped in the near future.
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>Why do you think this is needed for gcc-2.95?  No, I don't consider the 
>ability
>to pass args to makeinfo important enough for gcc-2.95.

Because it's a regression in the build process compared to egcs-1.1.2. 
Passing MAKEINFO="makeinfo --no-split" did work in egcs-1.1.2 and was used 
by distribution builders like RedHat. Either passing MAKEINFO from the 
toplevel Makefile to the subs should be respected again, or MAKEINFOFLAGS 
should be passed correctly.

Franz.