From 382bb6dfc4cdcbfd28a39bff0cf8009d6ad624d6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ian Jackson Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2019 18:46:58 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] README: Document that local+global is not 100% accurate Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson --- README | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/README b/README index 278ebb4..dc22589 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -398,6 +398,10 @@ suppressed with the &:warn directive. The warning tags are: The same VARNAME was used both with and without an & prefix. This can be confusing. Also, if you avoid this then you will get a warning iff you accidentally leave off a needed &. + The generation of this warning depends on scanning your + makefile for things that look like variable references, which + subdirmk does not do completely perfectly. Exciting make + syntax may evade this warning, or require suppressions. (You can suppress this warning for a particular VARNAME with the &:local+global directive.) -- 2.30.2