[CMake] Weird output

Alan W. Irwin irwin at beluga.phys.uvic.ca
Thu Sep 18 15:58:54 EDT 2008


On 2008-09-18 08:04+0200 Jesper Eskilson wrote:

> Alan W. Irwin wrote:
>> I doubt setting VERBOSE at the end like that after the "all" target will
>> work. For that order make probably assumes "VERBOSE=" is a target which is
>> not what you want.
>
> I don't think so. [...]

I investigated further, and "Unix in a Nutshell" (Section 19 on the make
utility) clearly states that make options, targets, and macro definitions
(the "=" construct) can appear in any order on the command line.  Sorry for
the noise about your preference for the order which I had not run into
before.

Alan
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