On Fri, 2018-04-20 at 11:41 +0200, Sébastien Hinderer wrote: > Am I correct that variables like MAKEFLAGS and MAKEOVERRIDE are passed > to any subshell called by make, whereas MAKE is not? > > May I ask why this is so?
The MAKE variable is set to the currently-executing make program. It doesn't make sense to inherit that value from the parent process. You can figure out which variables are passed down to the sub-makes using something like: echo 'all:;-env | sort' | make -f- FOO=bar You can compare that with the variables exported from the current shell, or grep for 'MAKE' to see variables related to make (I think all the default ones contain that string). _______________________________________________ Help-make mailing list Help-make@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-make
