Hi, in Debian buster, the Makefile debian/rules of the source package elfutils has the following recipe:
build-stamp: config.status dh_testdir $(MAKE) $(MAKEFLAGS) I have tree questions here: 1. As short options show up in $(MAKEFLAGS) without the leading -, am I right to consider the above usage of MAKEFLAGS to be a bug? 2. Furthermore, is it true that any (sub)make honors all flags present in MAKEFLAGS anyway? 3. Finally, it looks somewhat inconsistent to me (and presumably, also to the maintainer of the elfutils package) that short options in MAKEFLAGS are lacking their leading -, whereas long options (that do not have a short option counterpart) do show up in MAKEFLAGS with their two leading --: Is this just for historic reasons? I'd be happy to just get a 3 times "yes" confirmation, if reasonable :-). Thanks, Chris
