> Pascal Stumpf drew my attention to the fact that the following line
> in the top-level Makefile.in is causing trouble:
>
> MAKE_K_FLAG=`case "$(MAKEFLAGS)" in *k*) echo ' -k ';; esac`
>
> The problem is that *any* k character anywhere in MAKEFLAGS, for
> example coming from something like
>
> make ... FOO=k ...
>
> is mistaken for a -k flag, forcing some parts of the build to ignore
> errors even when that is not desired, making errors harder to spot.
> [...]
I've sent a mail to Bruno Haible, but I haven't received a response
yet.
Werner
