Subject: Re: Cygwin DLL configuration
From: "Max Bowsher" <[email-masked]>
To: "Doru Carastan" <[email-masked]>
Cc: <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2003 22:15:43 +0100

Doru Carastan wrote:
> David Rothenberger wrote:
>> Gerrit recently posted a script ...
>>
>> See <http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-07/msg01316.html>.
>>
>
> Thank you David, it did the trick. tooldir is the culprit.
>
> ifeq ($(target_alias),$(host_alias))
> ifeq ($(build_alias),$(host_alias))
> tooldir:=$(exec_prefix)
> else
> tooldir:=$(exec_prefix)/$(target_alias)
> endif
> else
> tooldir:=$(exec_prefix)/$(target_alias)
> endif
>
> For some reason the tooldir variable does not get set to ${exec_prefix}.

The reason is that the top level Makefile defines tooldir, and passes it
down through the FLAGS_TO_PASS mechanism, causing it to appear on the
command line of the sub-make. And command line variable definitions override
normal definitions of variables inside Makefiles.

Max.

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