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13.3 Makefile Variables

The default behavior of amake can be overridden by assigning values to makefile variables. Of course, they can be target-specific assignments.

A variable is considered to be “set” if and only if it has a value and that value is not of length zero. In other words, this does not “set” variable FOO:

     FOO:=

but this does:

     FOO:=1

These are the variables: