[m-dev.] Is -E broken?

[Fergus Henderson]

On 01-Mar-2001, Ralph Becket <rbeck at microsoft.com> wrote:
> Often, when I do `mmake MCFLAGS=-E' [...]

You should do `mmake EXTRA_MCFLAGS=-E'.

Otherwise you will clobber the value of MCFLAGS that is set in your
Mmakefile.  That could lead to the kind of errors that you observed.

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