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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/make.texi | 10 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/doc/make.texi b/doc/make.texi index 18d4375e..84f473e4 100644 --- a/doc/make.texi +++ b/doc/make.texi @@ -5070,10 +5070,12 @@ set up automatically by @code{make} to contain the flag letters that @code{make} received. Thus, if you do @w{@samp{make -ks}} then @code{MAKEFLAGS} gets the value @samp{ks}. -As a consequence, every sub-@code{make} gets a value for @code{MAKEFLAGS} -in its environment. In response, it takes the flags from that value and -processes them as if they had been given as arguments. -@xref{Options Summary, ,Summary of Options}. +As a consequence, every sub-@code{make} gets a value for @code{MAKEFLAGS} in +its environment. In response, it takes the flags from that value and +processes them as if they had been given as arguments. @xref{Options Summary, +,Summary of Options}. This means that, unlike other environment variables, +@code{MAKEFLAGS} specified in the environment take precedence over +@code{MAKEFLAGS} specified in the makefile. The value of @code{MAKEFLAGS} is a possibly empty group of characters representing single-letter options that take no argument, followed by a space |