[Dnsmasq-discuss] Fwd: [PATCH] Makefile: make variables overridable

[John Ericson]

On Sun, Jul 12, 2020, at 5:22 PM, Pali Rohár wrote:
> 
> But why is this change needed at all? Are there some bugs in GNU make so
> that macros/variables initialized by '=' cannot be overridden and
> initialization with '?=' is fixing those bugs?

Definitions with = can still be overridden on the command line, but won't be overridden by environment variables alone. The PKG_CONFIG change would just be to avoid extra make flags.

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