On Fri, Feb 22, 2019 at 03:41:23PM +0100, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
> Move the assignment of the "STRIP" variable down to where we're
> setting variables with the names of other programs.
>
> For consistency with those use "=" for the assignment instead of
> "?=". I can't imagine why this would need to be different than the
> rest, and 4dc00021f7 ("Makefile: add 'strip' target", 2006-01-12)
> which added it doesn't provide an explanation.
This might annoy somebody expecting $STRIP in the environment to have
precedence. But I agree that consistency is probably our best strategy
here, and I don't see any reason the same argument would not apply to
$SPATCH, or $CC for that matter.
(So I could see an argument for moving them all to "?=", but that can
create its own confusion as environment variables accidentally start
taking effect).
-Peff
