On Fri, 8 Jun 2001, Simon J. Gerraty wrote:

: > Also, the recursion invocations sprinkled throughout pkgsrc need to replace
: > the:
: >
: >     ${MAKE} ${MAKEFLAGS}
: >
: > (which should be entirely redundant) with:
: >
: >     ${MAKE}
: >
: > (which should automatically propagate the proper flags).
:
: After looking at pkgsrc yesterday I wasn't able to convince myself
: that that would be correct.  bsd.pkg.mk adds a bunch of stuff to
: MAKEFLAGS which would not end up being exported - since they were not
: set on the command line.

Um, MAKEFLAGS should always be exported, according to POSIX; it's a
particularly special case.  If it needs to be in a "special variable"
because you're disabling the rest, fine.

The problem people had been seeing is that, say, a "-k" or "-m" was
multiplying rapidly in sub-make recursion because they are also part of
${MAKE}.  "ps" lists were getting *huge*.

Now, if POSIX says that ${MAKE} is *not* supposed to contain these flags,
then pkgsrc is correct, if annoying on the older make(1).... and we need a
fallback mode for that too.

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