Re: gmake -C mess up MAKEFLAGS?

[RobinK]

Thank you Paul! Everything's working fine now.


Paul Smith-20 wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 2009-10-31 at 11:23 -0700, RobinK wrote:
>> foo:
>>      $(MAKE) $(MAKEFLAGS)
>> 
>> 
>> Yeah, that's exactly what I did. So what's the correct syntax? What I
>> need
>> is, if I pass any parameters to the top level makefile, those params
>> should
>> be passed to subdirectory level makefile.
> 
> Make already does that.  That's what MAKEFLAGS are for... and make
> handles it for you.
> 
> Just run:
> 
>       foo:
>               $(MAKE)
> 
> and you're done.  Just be SURE to use the variable $(MAKE), not the
> static string "make".
> 
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