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Re: how the make "-I" option is passed to sub-makes
From: |
Robert P. J. Day |
Subject: |
Re: how the make "-I" option is passed to sub-makes |
Date: |
Sat, 25 Feb 2006 09:34:46 -0500 (EST) |
On Fri, 24 Feb 2006, Paul D. Smith wrote:
> %% "Robert P. J. Day" <address@hidden> writes:
>
> rpjd> i think i'm reading something incorrectly, but what is the proper
> rpjd> way to do a top-level invocation of
>
> rpjd> $ make -Idir1 -Idir2 ...
>
> rpjd> and have those include options passed recursively to sub-makes? i was
> rpjd> trying to do this with the MAKEFLAGS variable but i'm clearly doing
> rpjd> something wrong.
>
> rpjd> i don't want to have to set that MAKEFLAGS variable explicitly in
> rpjd> the environment -- i want all include information to be supplied as
> rpjd> options to the make command itself.
>
> You don't need to set MAKEFLAGS at all.
>
> The options you specified on the command line will automagically be
> passed down to sub-makes for you, unless otherwise specified in the
> GNU make manual.
>
> -I is definitely given to sub-makes.
never mind, i was just doing something goofy so that it only
*appeared* that it wasn't being passed down. duh. sorry.
rday