Re: how to make "make" variables override sub-make variables

Article View: gnu.utils.bug

Article #654

#654

From: bothner
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 08:23

12 lines
787 bytes

> Is there (or shouldn't there be) an easy way to let top-level make
> variables override the values specified in sub-makefiles

Doing it manually is easy.  In Cygnus Makefile, we typically do:

FLAGS_TO_PASS = CC=$(CC) BINDIR=$(BINDIR) ...

do_foo:
	cd foo; $(MAKE) $(FLAGS_TO_PASS) all

	--Per Bothner
Cygnus Support     bothner@cygnus.com

Technical Details

Message-ID: <9208142223.AA13487@cygnus.com>

Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cis.ohio-state.edu!cygnus.com!bothner

References: <22185@venera.isi.edu>

Show Full Headers

Complete Article Headers

Newsgroups: gnu.utils.bug
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cis.ohio-state.edu!cygnus.com!bothner
From: bothner@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: how to make "make" variables override sub-make variables
Message-ID: <9208142223.AA13487@cygnus.com>
Sender: gnulists@ai.mit.edu
Organization: GNUs Not Usenet
References: <22185@venera.isi.edu>
Distribution: gnu
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 08:23:52 GMT
Approved: bug-gnu-utils@prep.ai.mit.edu
Lines: 13

Reply to Parent Message