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bmake: variable assignments on command line non-overridable?

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Subject: bmake: variable assignments on command line non-overridable?
From: Edgar Fuß <ef%math.uni-bonn.de@localhost>
Date: Mon, 6 May 2019 20:02:45 +0200

Is it on purpose (surely it's not documented) that, with (b)make, variable 
assignments on the command line are not overridable in the Makefile?
Inside the Makefile, assignments can be overrided, so what's the point?

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