`MAKEOVERRIDES='

[John David Anglin]

> Version: 2.95.3

> gcc top-level `Makefile.in' contains `MAKEOVERRIDES=' line, which
> can introduce inconveniences when trying to rerun make with slightly
> modified variable values.  Why is it required at all?  The only reason
> stated in GNU make documentation is small fixed limit on the size of
> the environment.  If on my system this limit is very large (say, 2
> Mb), will it be safe to remove this from `Makefile'?

Yes.  I introduced it to trim the environment size to a minimum.  There
were `exec' failures in gcc starting the linker on a machine with with
an environment limit of 10240 bytes.

Dave
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