Re: Speeding up the bootstrap build - a quick hack.

[Stephen Leake]

Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> writes:

> This was surprisingly difficult to solve.  There appears to be no way in
> make to set a variable depending on what the target is.

target :: VARIABLE := "value"
targ
Sets VARIABLE to value only while executing target.

I could not find the section in the make manual that says this, but it
must be there somewhere - that's how I learned it :(.

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