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

[Mark Cave-Ayland]

On 21/01/16 14:12, Peter Lemenkov wrote:
> Hello All!
> Sorry for the delayed answer.
>
> 2016-01-18 14:53 GMT+01:00 Segher Boessenkool :
> > Why not?  Manual says to do just this; and I tested it just now to make
> > sure I am not imagining things, and it works fine.  So what is unusual
> > in your setup?
>
> I accidentally confused you - everything works fine if I pass
> variables like you suggested. But I'd like to add possibility to
> override variables using envronment variables.
>
> This is exactly how various Linux distros' buildsystems are working.
> So being able to setup variables system-wide would be helpful!

If you're trying to override DESTDIR then you'd already need something
that executes "make DESTDIR=/path/to/destdir" so if this works as Segher
suggests then can you not do "make DESTDIR=$DESTDIR" or similar?

ATB,

Mark.