Re: how the make "-I" option is passed to sub-makes

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Fri, 24 Feb 2006, Paul D. Smith wrote:

> %% "Robert P. J. Day" <address@hidden> writes:
>
>   rpjd> i think i'm reading something incorrectly, but what is the proper
>   rpjd> way to do a top-level invocation of
>
>   rpjd>   $ make -Idir1 -Idir2 ...
>
>   rpjd> and have those include options passed recursively to sub-makes?  i was
>   rpjd> trying to do this with the MAKEFLAGS variable but i'm clearly doing
>   rpjd> something wrong.
>
>   rpjd> i don't want to have to set that MAKEFLAGS variable explicitly in
>   rpjd> the environment -- i want all include information to be supplied as
>   rpjd> options to the make command itself.
>
> You don't need to set MAKEFLAGS at all.
>
> The options you specified on the command line will automagically be
> passed down to sub-makes for you, unless otherwise specified in the
> GNU make manual.
>
> -I is definitely given to sub-makes.

never mind, i was just doing something goofy so that it only
*appeared* that it wasn't being passed down.  duh.  sorry.

rday