Hi, Pascal Stumpf drew my attention to the fact that the following line in the top-level Makefile.in is causing trouble:
MAKE_K_FLAG=`case "$(MAKEFLAGS)" in *k*) echo ' -k ';; esac` The problem is that *any* k character anywhere in MAKEFLAGS, for example coming from something like make ... FOO=k ... is mistaken for a -k flag, forcing some parts of the build to ignore errors even when that is not desired, making errors harder to spot. Pascal found http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2006-01/msg00075.html but we don't quite understand the reasoning given there, as both BSD make and GNU make pass down -k to recursive make child processes anyway, without doing anything special. So it seems one could just remove MAKE_K_FLAG completely without any adverse effect, fixing the trouble it is causing. If you agree with my reasoning, please tell me to send a patch; however, it is mostly going to be a backout patch for the commit referenced above... Thanks for having a look, Ingo
