Peter Lawrence <peterl95...@sbcglobal.net> 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 _______________________________________________ bug-binutils mailing list bug-binutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-binutils
