Re: changing MAKEFLAGS to affect current makefile

[Paul D. Smith]

%% Boris Kolpackov <address@hidden> writes:

  bk> Actually it sort of works. For example the following two lines at the
  bk> beginning of the makefile

  bk> .SUFFIXES:
  bk> MAKEFLAGS += -r

  bk> are equivalent to running 'make -r'.

Actually, not.  The MAKEFLAGS+=-r is not doing anything here.

.SUFFIXES: will remove all builtin suffix rules, but it won't impact
builtin pattern rules.

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