Re: gmake-4.2.1 ignores assignment of ARCH on FreeBSD

[Yuri]

On 12/26/17 11:37, Paul Smith wrote:

> to the makefile right after you assign ARCH and see whether the shell
> result is what you expect, and whether the ARCH assignment here is what
> you expect.
>
> Also, if you invoke make with the '-p' option it will show you where
> all the variables are assigned along with their value.  This may help
> you track down where ARCH is being set.


I found that ARCH=amd64 is set in the environment by the framework. This 
is what makes a difference.


But this is very confusing and error prone that := assignments are 
ignored for variables that are present in environment.

This can lead to random discrepancies in make runs.


It should really either assign the value, or fail if it can't, not just 
ignore the assignment.


Yuri