Package: make
Version: 3.81-8
Severity: normal
The GNU Make manual starts like this:
MAKEFLAGS
The flags given to make. You can set this in the environment or a
makefile to set flags.
See Communicating Options to a Sub-make.
This sounds as if assigning to MAKEFLAGS will have the same effect as supplying
an option on the command line (which is quite tempting since many options e.g.
--no-builtin-rules make Make a lot more sane in many modern contexts). But
this is apparently not the case. Consider this Makefile:
MAKEFLAGS += --no-builtin-variables
ecc:
@echo XX$(CC)XX
[ $(MAKELEVEL) -lt 2 ] || false
make ecc
Then we get:
$ make ecc
XXccXX
[ 0 -lt 2 ] || false
make ecc
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/bkerin/projects/utility_meter/hub/software'
XXXX
[ 1 -lt 2 ] || false
make ecc
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/bkerin/projects/utility_meter/hub/software'
XXXX
[ 2 -lt 2 ] || false
make[2]: *** [ecc] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/bkerin/projects/utility_meter/hub/software'
make[1]: *** [ecc] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/bkerin/projects/utility_meter/hub/software'
make: *** [ecc] Error 2
$
Note that the top-level invocation still has the builtin variable CC set. In
other words, the effects of setting MAKEFLAGS apply only to the sub-makes (as
documents under "Communicating Options to a Sub-make", not to the current
invocation itself.
The wording in the documentation should be changed to reflect this fact.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.7
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686-bigmem (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages make depends on:
ii libc6 2.11.3-4 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
make recommends no packages.
Versions of packages make suggests:
pn make-doc <none> (no description available)
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