Re: Chnaging MAKEFLAGS

[Boris Kolpackov]

Greg Kilfoyle <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi,
>
> The manual (section 5.6.3) suggests that I can change the value of
> variable MAKEFLAGS such that the current make file will refer to the new
> setting.

This is a bit trickier than what the manual says. GNU make re-parses
MEKEFLAGS *after* the makefile (and all makefiles that it includes) has
been read. So options that affect makefile reading process (like -I)
won't take effect while those that change behavior of later stages
(like -r) will.

-boris