>>>>> On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 14:39:57 +0000, Paul Brook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>> Saying CPPFLAGS+= is much more convenient if for any reason the
>> external build environment would like to pass unusual CPPFLAGS.
Paul> No. This doesn't do what you thing it does. The most common way
Paul> of overriding these variables is to pass them on the
Paul> commandline, i.e. "make CPPFLAGS=-blah". This overrides all
Paul> assignments to that variable including +=.
By the way, it is possible to improve the GNU make weirdness :-) by
playing with stuff like:
override CFLAGS += -g
Cf section 6.7 of the documentation.
Hmmm... GNU make evolves more rapidly than my brain... :-)
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