Re: [PATCH 10/14] KVM: selftests: Include lib.mk before consuming $(CC)

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 12/13/22 01:16, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> Include lib.mk before consuming $(CC) and document that lib.mk overwrites
> $(CC) unless make was invoked with -e or $(CC) was specified after make
> (which apparently makes the environment override the Makefile?!?!).

Yes, it does.  In projects that don't use configure or similar, you 
might have seen

CFLAGS = -O2 -g

to be overridden with "make CFLAGS=-g" if optimization is undesirable.

Paolo

> Including lib.mk after using it for probing, e.g. for -no-pie, can lead
> to weirdness.