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

[Peter Lemenkov]

2016-01-18 13:12 GMT+01:00 Segher Boessenkool :
> > > 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.
>
> But this is *not* an environment variable!

Yes, sorry. Anyway we can't override Makefile-variables that way
unless we allow it.