# $NetBSD: varname-dot-makeflags.mk,v 1.1 2020/12/01 20:37:30 rillig Exp $ # # Tests for the special .MAKEFLAGS variable, which collects almost all # command line arguments and passes them on to any child processes via # the environment variable MAKEFLAGS (without leading '.'). # When options are parsed, the option and its argument are appended as # separate words to .MAKEFLAGS. Special characters in the option argument # are not quoted though. It seems to have not been necessary at least from # 1993 until 2020. .MAKEFLAGS: -d00000 -D"VARNAME WITH SPACES" all: echo "$$MAKEFLAGS" @:;