On Fri, 24 Feb 2006, Paul D. Smith wrote: > %% "Robert P. J. Day" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > rpjd> i think i'm reading something incorrectly, but what is the proper > rpjd> way to do a top-level invocation of > > rpjd> $ make -Idir1 -Idir2 ... > > rpjd> and have those include options passed recursively to sub-makes? i was > rpjd> trying to do this with the MAKEFLAGS variable but i'm clearly doing > rpjd> something wrong. > > rpjd> i don't want to have to set that MAKEFLAGS variable explicitly in > rpjd> the environment -- i want all include information to be supplied as > rpjd> options to the make command itself. > > You don't need to set MAKEFLAGS at all. > > The options you specified on the command line will automagically be > passed down to sub-makes for you, unless otherwise specified in the > GNU make manual. > > -I is definitely given to sub-makes.
never mind, i was just doing something goofy so that it only *appeared* that it wasn't being passed down. duh. sorry. rday _______________________________________________ Help-make mailing list Help-make@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-make
