Re: gmake -C mess up MAKEFLAGS?

[Harvey Chapman]

On Oct 31, 2009, at 10:32 AM, RobinK wrote:

> want that "w" to be in $(MAKEFLAGS). Plus, even if it has to add the  
> w,
> shouldn't it be "-w" rather than just a "w"? The extra w totally  
> messed up

Grab a copy of the make manual. I keep a PDF copy on my laptop for  
quick reference.
From the make manual:

5.7.3 Communicating Options to a Sub-make
Flags such as ‘-s’ and ‘-k’ are passed automatically to the sub-make  
through the variable MAKEFLAGS. This variable is set up automatically  
by make to contain the flag letters that make received. Thus, if you  
do ‘make -ks’ then MAKEFLAGS gets the value ‘ks’.

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