Re: A not so clear behaviour for Makefiles including other makefiles

[Noel Yap]

"Paul D. Smith" wrote:
> Not currently.  The re-exec code doesn't go through the normal "put
> exported make variables to the environment" processing that's done
> before a shell is invoked... and I think it's correct to work that way,

I completely agree.

> However, this is probably worth requesting as a new feature: some way to
> tell whether or not you've re-execed.  I would assume it would be
> something like MAKELEVEL, except for counting re-execs.  That way people
> could conditionalize on that where they wanted to.  It has to be
> carefully done though to be sure the variable is set where it should be
> and _NOT_ set where it shouldn't be.

I was think along the same lines.  Can this request be made via this list?  Or, 
should it be made through Savannah?

Thanks,
Noel
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