On Fri, Feb 22, 2019 at 09:58:14PM +0000, Ramsay Jones wrote: > > 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). > > $STRIP and $SPATCH will work OK, but you would be disappointed > with $CC (or any other variable from make's built-in database). ;-) Oof. That's confusing. All the more reason not to go in the direction of "?=". Thanks for an interesting tidbit. -Peff
