On Tue, 2017-04-18 at 11:58 +0200, zosrothko wrote: > Ok understood... but why make does not defined them implicitly like > CXX,CC adn others? Would be consistent then!
There are all sorts of variables make _doesn't_ define. The default variables provided by make are the ones needed to implement the default rules provided by make. In those default rules there is no "strip" or "ranlib" invocation, so there is no variable that defines them. _______________________________________________ Help-make mailing list Help-make@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-make