Re: changing MAKEFLAGS to affect current makefile

[Noel Yap]

It's submakes that are affected.

You might want to read http://www.paulandlesley.org/make/multi-arch.html for an 
idea for how to do what you want.

HTH,
Noel

Boris Kolpackov wrote:

> Good day,
>
> I read the following in "Communicating Options to sub-make":
>
> "You can also set `MAKEFLAGS' in a makefile, to specify additional 
> flags that should also be in effect for that makefile."
>
> and also
>
> "When `make' interprets the value of `MAKEFLAGS' (either from the
> environment or from a makefile), it first prepends a hyphen if the 
> value does not already begin with one."
>
> Which means that I should be able to say something like
>
>
> MAKEFLAGS += -r
>
> and all built-in implicit rules are gone. But that sounds too 
> good to be true - this line has no effect on current make.
>  
> Any clue?
>
>
> thanks,
> -boris
>
>
>
>
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