Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] CPPFLAGS+= in Makefile.target

[Ronan Keryell]

>>>>> On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 14:39:57 +0000, Paul Brook <address@hidden> 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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