Subject: Re: MAKE_FLAGS or MAKEFLAGS?
To: Georg Schwarz <georg.schwarz@freenet.de>
From: Roland Illig <roland.illig@gmx.de>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 04/17/2005 13:50:05
Georg Schwarz wrote:
> Which one is correct? I see both of them in pkgsrc.

This is clearly undocumented, but I once had the same question and 
answered it.

${MAKE} ${MAKEFLAGS} is used for the pkgsrc infrastructure to call 
sub-makes like build, install, etc.

${SETENV} ${MAKE_ENV} ${MAKE_PROGRAM} ${MAKE_FLAGS} is the make program 
to build the package with.

Roland