Re: MAKEFLAGS and auto-including another makefile

[Paul D. Smith]

%% Ken Smith <address@hidden> writes:

  >> and print the value of ${MAKEFLAGS}, what i get is "I /a/b/c".  but if
  >> i have multiple options, all subsequent options will have the leading
  >> hyphen.  not a big deal, but i'm just curious as to why the leading
  >> hyphen goes missing.  and the docs don't seem to make any mention of
  >> that.

  ks> I confirmed this behavior.  Seems strange to me too.  However, the
  ks> option's effect gets properly propogated to a submake.

I don't know what the original authors were thinking (smoking...? :-))
when they came up with this, but it's standard behavior across all
versions of make, going back in time, and is specified by the POSIX
definition of make.

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