Re: [PATCH v2 2/6] Makefile: move "strip" assignment down from flags

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Feb 22, 2019, 15:18 UTC
Message-ID: <20190222151834.GA21524@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20190222144127.32248-3-avarab@gmail.com>

On Fri, Feb 22, 2019 at 03:41:23PM +0100, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:

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> Move the assignment of the "STRIP" variable down to where we're
> setting variables with the names of other programs.
> 
> For consistency with those use "=" for the assignment instead of
> "?=". I can't imagine why this would need to be different than the
> rest, and 4dc00021f7 ("Makefile: add 'strip' target", 2006-01-12)
> which added it doesn't provide an explanation.

This might annoy somebody expecting $STRIP in the environment to have precedence. But I agree that consistency is probably our best strategy here, and I don't see any reason the same argument would not apply to $SPATCH, or $CC for that matter.

(So I could see an argument for moving them all to "?=", but that can create its own confusion as environment variables accidentally start taking effect).

-Peff