Re: changing MAKEFLAGS to affect current makefile

[Paul D. Smith]

%% Boris Kolpackov <address@hidden> writes:

  bk> I read the following in "Communicating Options to sub-make":

  bk> "You can also set `MAKEFLAGS' in a makefile, to specify additional 
  bk> flags that should also be in effect for that makefile."

  bk> and also

  bk> "When `make' interprets the value of `MAKEFLAGS' (either from the
  bk> environment or from a makefile), it first prepends a hyphen if the 
  bk> value does not already begin with one."

  bk> Which means that I should be able to say something like

  bk> MAKEFLAGS += -r

  bk> and all built-in implicit rules are gone. But that sounds too 
  bk> good to be true - this line has no effect on current make.
 
This is indeed a bug (IMO anyway), and has been for basically as long as
make has been around.  I thought there was even a bug in Savannah about
this.

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