Re: [OpenBIOS] [PATCH 1/1] [FCODE-utils] Allow overriding more Makefile vars

[Peter Lemenkov]

Hello All!

2016-01-18 7:50 GMT+01:00 Segher Boessenkool :
> It probably works fine.  "?=" can be problematic with e.g. recursive
> makefiles, but you don't have those here.

Also it's already used within the Makefiles to override C-compiler, so
my patch won't change the current situation.
> But why do you need it?  Why doesn't e.g.
>     make DESTDIR=/opt/bla
>
> work for you as-is?  Or do you need those vars to be passed in via the
> environment?

Unfortunately this DESTDIR trick won't work. Explicitly stated
variables from the Makefile itself have preference over the
environment variables unless they stated with "?=". At least this is
how GNU make works.