Making it easier to build and test new vms

Brian T. Rice water at tunes.org
Tue Aug 3 23:12:45 PDT 2004


Excellent. Of course it had to be ridiculously simple. Thanks.

nicolas.pelletier3 at free.fr wrote:

> "Brian T. Rice" <water at tunes.org> writes:
> 
>>Thanks, that is easier, and it works (well, for me, using GNU make);
>>it's in CVS now. If someone knows a way to set this new variable on
>>invocation of make, that would probably save even more time (no need
>>to open an editor).
> 
> 
> With  GNU make  (at  least), all  you  need is  to  give the  variable
> definition on the command line. Example:
> 
> nicolas at reglisse:~/tmp$ cat Makefile
> TOTO = pouet
> 
> all:
>         echo $(TOTO)
> nicolas at reglisse:~/tmp$ make TOTO=zork
> echo zork
> zork
> 

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