On Aug 27, 2000, "W. Reilly Cooley, Esq." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Now, maybe I'm misunderstanding Make's macro-passing, but in order for
> the DESTDIR passed to the make in the first place, doesn't the @$(MAKE)
> line need something like 'DESTDIR=$(DESTDIR)' ? Would this be the
> correct way to fix this?
AFAIK, POSIX-compliant implementations of `make' should pass down to
sub-makes any variables set in the command-line of the top-level make.
GNU make, for example, does this, so DESTDIR works as expected.
But automake could indeed pass it down explicitly, to support other
makes in this regard.
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