Re: Preventing variables from being passed to a sub-make

[Will Newton]

On 6/7/07, Paul Smith <address@hidden> wrote:

> Anyway, one option is the one I gave.  Another option would be to make
> your top-level makefile slightly more complex and pass the override
> values in through the environment rather than the command line.  If you
> use something like:
>
>         SUBDIRS=foo make
>
> rather than:
>
>         make SUBDIRS=foo
>
> then the SUBDIRS value will be passed to sub-makes but through the
> environment, and any settings in the submake makefiles will take
> precedence over the environment setting.

Thanks, that looks like a good way to solve my problem.