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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/12] Makefile: introduce CROSS_COMPILE variable
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2014 13:45:04 -0700
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Hi,

Marat Radchenko wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 09:25:36AM -0700, Jonathan Nieder wrote:

>>> -STRIP ?= strip
>>> +STRIP = $(CROSS_COMPILE)strip
>>
>> Before, STRIP from the environment took precedence over STRIP from the
>> makefile.  Switching to the more usual 'environment can't be trusted'
>> convention is a good change, but please mention it in the commit
>> message.
>
> Taken from [1]:
>
>> Simply expanded variables are defined by

I'm not really sure what in particular you're pointing to in that
page.  If you have a more specific question about what '?=' means,
could you say it?

Hope that helps,
Jonathan