cvs commit: src/usr.bin/make Makefile main.c nonints.h var.c

[John Baldwin]

On Monday 09 August 2004 11:54 am, Harti Brandt wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Aug 2004, M. Warner Losh wrote:
>
> MWL>In message: <20040809.092824.11587387.imp at bsdimp.com>
> MWL>: The current man page is stunningly vague about this.  It says that it
> MWL>: respects these environment variables, but it doesn't say they have to
> MWL>: be set in the enviornment to the exclusion of setting them on the
> MWL>: command line.
> MWL>
> MWL>So either we can make it work, or document that the variables listed
> MWL>in the environment section must be set as environment variables only.
>
> There is nothing to be made work. Both variables are intended to be used
> as environment variables. That they happend to work from the command line
> was a side effect of make putting its variables into the environment.
> Does the following clarify things enough?

Doesn't change the fact that it can break existing scripts.  I typically do

% worldloop -j 64 MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX=/usr/obj.test

on my test boxes (worldloop is a script that does a 'make buildworld "$@"' in 
a loop).  Can't be fixed I guess.

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