Re: MAKEFLAGS not updated when it already exists?

[Paul D. Smith]

I would agree that GNU make's behavior here is not according to the
standard... it looks like you're right: the flags that are in MAKEFLAGS
as a consequence of the initial invocation of make take precedence and
no extra flags that are added to a "sub-make" will be added to
MAKEFLAGS.

I tested back as far as GNU make 3.75 and this has always been the case.

I'll look into it.  Please submit a bug against GNU make in Savannah on
this, thanks!

  https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/make/

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