[buug] Makefile INCLUDEDIRS=

[Bill Honeycutt]

Jon McClintock wrote:

> You can set make variables on the make command line:
> 
> $ make INCLUDEDIRS=/var/local/bad/place/to/put/headers/
> 
> -Jon

Thanks Jon!

This is definitely the best solution for what I'm trying to do.


> 
> On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 09:17:06AM -0700, Bill Honeycutt wrote:
> 
>>Hi,
>>
>>This is probably a simple question.
>>
>>Can I provide the path to "extra" header files without directly editing 
>>Makefile?
>>
>>I'm building a graphics library for some of our web programmers. 
>>Comments in the Makefile provided in the tarball explicitely state that 
>>some modification to the Makefile is required, and sure enough I had to 
>>add a reference to the INCLUDEDIRS directive.
>>
>>There was no configure script provided...manual modification of Makefile 
>> was necessary (editing and adding the path to my headers worked, BTW).
>>
>>My question is this: Is it possible to pass my -I/headerpath parameter 
>>in some way other than directly editing the Makefile?
>>
>>Thanks in advance!
>>
>>Bill
>>
>>
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