Hello, On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 08:18:26AM -0500, Felipe Contreras wrote: > Set by whom? If it's by the environment you should be running 'make -e'. ... or on command line (through recursive make, prehaps). But these both take precedence over makefile assignments. Another issue is the interaction with included makefile fragments. Actually, both CC = gcc -include ../../../config.mak and -include ../../../config.mak CC ?= gcc are very close. (They would differ if config.mak contained "?=".) I was confused by the former, but perhaps it's only me. Stepan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html