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Re: Undefined environment variable and operator ?=


From: Paul Smith
Subject: Re: Undefined environment variable and operator ?=
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2017 08:22:52 -0400

On Tue, 2017-04-18 at 11:58 +0200, zosrothko wrote:
> Ok understood... but why make does not defined them implicitly like
> CXX,CC adn others? Would be consistent then!

There are all sorts of variables make _doesn't_ define.  The default
variables provided by make are the ones needed to implement the default
rules provided by make.  In those default rules there is no "strip" or
"ranlib" invocation, so there is no variable that defines them.



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