On 2018-12-22, Tony Mechelynck wrote:
> Setting $CONF_ARGS in the environment doesn't work anymore: it is
> overridden (unless make is called with the -e switch, which is not
> normal practice) by the line
>
> CONF_ARGS = $(CONF_ARGS1) $(CONF_ARGS2) $(CONF_ARGS3) $(CONF_ARGS4)
> $(CONF_ARGS5)
>
> at line 326 of src/Makefile. Setting $CONF_ARGS1 to $CONF_ARGS5 works,
> since lines 321-325 of the same Makefile are commented-out.
>
> So if e.g. you had
>
> export CONF_ARGS='--with-vim-name=vi'
>
> in the bash startup script in your shadow directory for building a
> Tiny Vim, that line must now be replaced by
>
> export CONF_ARGS2='--with-vim-name=vi'
>
> otherwise your Tiny Vim will be built with the executable name "vim",
> and "make installvimbin" will copy and strip it into
> /usr/local/bin/vim, which is not what you want.
>
> N.B. I don't edit the src/shadow-*/Makefile or the src/Makefile;
> instead, I create soft links Makefile -> ../Makefile in each shadow
> directory and set my configure arguments by means of environment
> variables. This way I always use the latest Makefile. But I have to
> keep watch for incompatible changes like the one above.
That's a good short-term work-around, but wouldn't it be better to
fix the problem by replacing that CONF_ARGS assignment in
src/Makefile with this:
CONF_ARGS = $(CONF_ARGS) $(CONF_ARGS1) $(CONF_ARGS2) $(CONF_ARGS3)
$(CONF_ARGS4) $(CONF_ARGS5)
Regards,
Gary
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