Is this expected behavior? $ cat makefile1 override CFLAGS+=-DB
$(info makefile1: CFLAGS=$(CFLAGS)) all: make -f makefile2 $ cat makefile2 $(info makefile2: CFLAGS=$(CFLAGS)) override CFLAGS+=-DC $(info makefile2: CFLAGS=$(CFLAGS)) all: @echo foo $ make -f makefile1 CFLAGS=-DA makefile1: CFLAGS=-DA -DB make -f makefile2 makefile2: CFLAGS=-DA makefile2: CFLAGS=-DA -DC foo $ So why isn't the CFLAGS that gets passed to the submake set to "-DA -DB"? This is less than intuitive: it's not *really* overriding if it's only semi-persistent. What's even more confusing is that make apparently keeps two copies... the one that's in-scope for the current make, and the one that gets re-exported into sub-makes. I couldn't find in the documentation where this behavior gets called out. -Philip _______________________________________________ Bug-make mailing list Bug-make@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make