Re: what the...???...

[Ian Lance Taylor]

Peter Lawrence <address@hidden> writes:

> the question I have today is what is the point of all these
> definitions being passed in as arguments to "make", shouldn't
> this have been fixed by "configure", the Makefile is generated by
> "configure", so all these definitions should have
> been finalized at that point and the Makefile should already be wired
> with the correct definitions, there should not be
> any definitional arguments being passed in to make

Passing the arguments down makes it easy for the user/developer to
override them on the make command line, in a way that works reliably
with various different implementations of make.

Ian