From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 3878 invoked by alias); 13 Apr 2012 11:20:35 -0000 Received: (qmail 3870 invoked by uid 22791); 13 Apr 2012 11:20:34 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-6.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_RCVD_UNTRUST,KHOP_THREADED,MISSING_HEADERS,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_W,SPF_HELO_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Fri, 13 Apr 2012 11:20:13 +0000 Received: from int-mx12.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx12.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.25]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q3DBK8iF028462 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Fri, 13 Apr 2012 07:20:08 -0400 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (ovpn01.gateway.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.9.1]) by int-mx12.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q3DBK6hC026358; Fri, 13 Apr 2012 07:20:07 -0400 Message-ID: <4F880BE6.2040909@redhat.com> Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2012 11:24:00 -0000 From: Pedro Alves User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:11.0) Gecko/20120329 Thunderbird/11.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 CC: Yao Qi , Doug Evans , gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Link gnulib in gdbserver. References: <1334127046-27627-1-git-send-email-yao@codesourcery.com> <4F85C251.1070705@redhat.com> <4F867BA5.40201@codesourcery.com> <4F8774DC.4040004@codesourcery.com> <4F88088D.5030601@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <4F88088D.5030601@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2012-04/txt/msg00347.txt.bz2 On 04/13/2012 12:05 PM, Pedro Alves wrote: > I'm not a make expert, but I think this is more about passing variables > to sub-makes then about sub-dirs. Note how everything in FLAGS_TO_PASS > (before the gnulib changes) is just the unitary FOO=$(FOO). I think this is the reason: https://www.gnu.org/savannah-checkouts/gnu/autoconf/manual/autoconf-2.68/html_node/Macros-and-Submakes.html#Macros-and-Submakes -- Pedro Alves