On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 12:25:51AM -0800, Srinivasa Kanduru wrote:
  | >   | b) it might be useful to be able to pass the makeenv variables to
  | >   | makewrapper
  | > 
  | > how does this differ from 'build.sh -V var=val' ?
  | > 
  | '-V' option is there only with make I think, not with build.sh
  | 
  | A limited number of variables can be set with the existing build.sh
  | options, I am not sure if there is a generic way of passing environ
  | variables to make through the build script.

build.sh in NetBSD-current has supported setting arbitrary variables
with "-V var=value" since January 4, 2003.  This is separate to the
make(1) `-V' option.

Cheers,
Luke.