Re: Undefined environment variable and operator ?=

[zosrothko]

>>  Ok, but that does not work for 'ranlib' & 'strip' which are also
>> needed for cross compiling
> That's because there is no ranlib or strip available in the default set
> of variables provided by make:
>
>   $ make -pf/dev/null | grep -i ranlib
>   make: *** No targets.  Stop.
>
>   $ make -pf/dev/null | grep -i strip
>   make: *** No targets.  Stop.
>
> You'll have to define them yourself, as in:
>
>   RANLIB := $(CROSS_COMPILE)ranlib
>   STRIP := $(CROSS_COMPILE)strip
>
> or whatever.
Ok understood... but why make does not defined them implicitly like
CXX,CC adn others? Would be consistent then!
>