You've given a lot of good info here, but you're missing the most
important part: a sample of the makefile rule you used to invoke the
recursive make.
I'll bet it looks something like:
subdir:
cd subdir; $(MAKE) $(MAKEFLAGS)
That's an incorrect use of MAKEFLAGS. See the GNU make manu
Hi,
I have the following problem which seems to me as a bug.
I am sorry if I am missing something.
The GNU make version is:
GNU Make version 3.78.1, by Richard Stallman and Roland McGrath.
Built for sparc-sun-solaris2.7
Copyright (C) 1988, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99
Free
%% Bertrand Petit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
bp> I use pattern rules with no dependency to perform some generic
bp> actions such as:
bp> %-clean:
bp> cd $* ; $(MAKE) clean
bp> this works well if there is no .PHONY target related to the pattern
bp> rule.
bp> Now prepend this
