[bug #20501] "MAKEFLAGS += -rR" doesn't turn off default suffix rules, variables

2008-01-24 Thread Hendrik de Goede
Follow-up Comment #7, bug #20501 (project make): Does it matter that the built-in variables get set before reading makefiles? I hope not. I think the people involved in this project are clever enough to unset a 'default' variable if the make flag -R is encountered. I mean, the 'origin' function

Re: [bug #20501] "MAKEFLAGS += -rR" doesn't turn off default suffix rules, variables

2008-01-23 Thread Hendrik de Goede
the possibility to specify alternate default values. Maybe having 'CC?=gcc' also set CC if it only has a default value? p.s. Shouldn't these comments be made in the case? 2008/1/23, Philip Guenther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Jan 23, 2008 4:33 AM, Hendrik de Goede wrote: &

[bug #20501] "MAKEFLAGS += -rR" doesn't turn off default suffix rules, variables

2008-01-23 Thread Hendrik de Goede
Follow-up Comment #3, bug #20501 (project make): I think it is a bug. To quote the make 3.81 documentation 'You can also set MAKEFLAGS in a makefile, to specify additional flags that should also be in effect for that makefile', in the same chapter you specified. p.s. Indeed, I meant the recursi

[bug #20501] "MAKEFLAGS += -rR" doesn't turn off default suffix rules, variables

2008-01-23 Thread Hendrik de Goede
Follow-up Comment #1, bug #20501 (project make): I'm using GNU make 3.81 through cygwin on Windows XP. The -rR flags are not the only ones not working as expected (expected by me at least), the option -S doesn't work as well. However, when running a subsequent call from the Makefile, they all wo