Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!aplcen!haven!adm!smoke!gwyn From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: Problem with make Keywords: make for sysV Message-ID: <11195@smoke.BRL.MIL> Date: 30 Sep 89 01:35:28 GMT References: <715@bbking.KSP.Unisys.COM> <11169@smoke.BRL.MIL> <1989Sep29.164831.26616@wash08.uucp> Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD. Lines: 7 In article <1989Sep29.164831.26616@wash08.uucp> rae98@wash08.UUCP (Robert A. Earl) writes: >Can you read in a variable for use in the makefile? If I understood your question correctly, what you want is make target VAR=value which will override any definition for the "VAR" variable defined in the Makefile.