With GNU make, MFLAGS is not needed

* Makefile.in (CC, CFLAGS, LDFLAGS, CPPFLAGS, abs_top_srcdir):
Remove, no longer used.
(lib, lib-src, lisp, nt, src, blessmail, install-arch-dep)
(install-nt, install-strip, uninstall, uninstall-nt)
(mostlyclean, clean, distclean, bootstrap-clean)
(maintainer-clean, extraclean, TAGS, tags, check, $(DOCS)):
($(INSTALL_DOC), $(UNINSTALL_DOC), info, bootstrap, check-declare):
GNU make automatically passes command-line arguments to sub-makes.

* admin/unidata/Makefile.in (${DSTDIR}/charprop.el):
GNU make automatically passes command-line arguments to sub-makes.

* lib-src/Makefile.in (../lib/libgnu.a):
GNU make automatically passes command-line arguments to sub-makes.

* lisp/Makefile.in ($(lisp)/cus-load.el, $(lisp)/finder-inf.el)
(autoloads, $(lisp)/subdirs.el, compile-main, leim, semantic, compile)
(compile-always): GNU make automatically passes
command-line arguments to sub-makes.

* lwlib/Makefile.in ($(globals_h)):
GNU make automatically passes command-line arguments to sub-makes.

* src/Makefile.in ($(leimdir)/leim-list.el, $(srcdir)/macuvs.h)
($(lispsource)/international/charprop.el)
($(libsrc)/make-docfile$(EXEEXT), $(lwlibdir)/liblw.a)
($(oldXMenudir)/libXMenu11.a, ns-app, .el.elc)
($(lispsource)/loaddefs.el, bootstrap-emacs$(EXEEXT)):
GNU make automatically passes command-line arguments to sub-makes.

* test/automated/Makefile.in (compile-main):
GNU make automatically passes command-line arguments to sub-makes.

14 files changed, 140 insertions, 129 deletions

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 25de78e508a..90a1ce7c0c0 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,14 @@
+2014-06-13  Glenn Morris  <rgm@gnu.org>
+
+        * Makefile.in (CC, CFLAGS, LDFLAGS, CPPFLAGS, abs_top_srcdir):
+        Remove, no longer used.
+        (lib, lib-src, lisp, nt, src, blessmail, install-arch-dep)
+        (install-nt, install-strip, uninstall, uninstall-nt)
+        (mostlyclean, clean, distclean, bootstrap-clean)
+        (maintainer-clean, extraclean, TAGS, tags, check, $(DOCS)):
+        ($(INSTALL_DOC), $(UNINSTALL_DOC), info, bootstrap, check-declare):
+        GNU make automatically passes command-line arguments to sub-makes.
+
 2014-06-11  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
 
         Use a shell function in configure.ac to cut down on code duplication.
diff --git a/Makefile.in b/Makefile.in
index c6a10b0bd07..f9bfa082b0c 100644
--- a/Makefile.in
+++ b/Makefile.in
@@ -81,10 +81,6 @@ AUTOMAKE = @AUTOMAKE@
 AUTOHEADER = @AUTOHEADER@
 ACLOCAL = @ACLOCAL@
 
-CC=@CC@
-CFLAGS=@CFLAGS@
-LDFLAGS=@LDFLAGS@
-CPPFLAGS=@CPPFLAGS@
 EXEEXT=@EXEEXT@
 
 ### These help us choose version- and architecture-specific directories
@@ -170,8 +166,6 @@ bitmapdir=@bitmapdir@
 # We use $(srcdir) explicitly in dependencies so as not to depend on VPATH.
 srcdir=@srcdir@
 abs_srcdir=@abs_srcdir@
-# MinGW CPPFLAGS may use this.
-abs_top_srcdir=@abs_top_srcdir@
 
 # Where the manpage source files are kept.
 mansrcdir=$(srcdir)/doc/man
@@ -364,9 +358,7 @@ lisp: src
 
 # These targets should be "${SUBDIR} without `src'".
 lib lib-src lisp nt: Makefile
-        cd $@ && $(MAKE) all $(MFLAGS)                         \
-          CC='${CC}' CFLAGS='${CFLAGS}' CPPFLAGS='${CPPFLAGS}' \
-          LDFLAGS='${LDFLAGS}' MAKE='${MAKE}'
+        cd $@ && $(MAKE) all
 
 # Pass to src/Makefile.in an additional BOOTSTRAPEMACS variable which
 # is either set to bootstrap-emacs (in case bootstrap-emacs has not been
@@ -389,14 +381,10 @@ src: Makefile
         cd $@ || exit;                                                  \
         boot=bootstrap-emacs$(EXEEXT);                                  \
         [ ! -x "$$boot" ] || boot='';                                   \
-        $(MAKE) all $(MFLAGS)                                           \
-          CC='${CC}' CFLAGS='${CFLAGS}' CPPFLAGS='${CPPFLAGS}'          \
-          LDFLAGS='${LDFLAGS}' MAKE='${MAKE}' BOOTSTRAPEMACS="$$boot"   \
-          VCSWITNESS="$$vcswitness"
+        $(MAKE) all BOOTSTRAPEMACS="$$boot" VCSWITNESS="$$vcswitness"
 
 blessmail: Makefile src
-        cd lib-src && $(MAKE) maybe-blessmail $(MFLAGS) \
-          MAKE='${MAKE}' archlibdir='$(archlibdir)'
+        cd lib-src && $(MAKE) maybe-blessmail
 
 # We used to have one rule per */Makefile.in, but that leads to race
 # conditions with parallel makes, so let's assume that the time stamp on
@@ -489,11 +477,7 @@ write_subdir=if [ -f "$${subdir}/subdirs.el" ]; \
 ### Lisp files and DOC file to work properly.
 install-arch-dep: src install-arch-indep install-etcdoc install-$(NTDIR)
         umask 022; ${MKDIR_P} "$(DESTDIR)${bindir}"
-        cd lib-src && \
-          $(MAKE) install $(MFLAGS) prefix="${prefix}" \
-            exec_prefix="${exec_prefix}" bindir="${bindir}" \
-            libexecdir="${libexecdir}" archlibdir="${archlibdir}" \
-            INSTALL_STRIP=${INSTALL_STRIP}
+        cd lib-src && $(MAKE) install
         if test "${ns_self_contained}" = "no"; then \
           ${INSTALL_PROGRAM} $(INSTALL_STRIP) src/emacs${EXEEXT} "$(DESTDIR)${bindir}/$(EMACSFULL)" || exit 1 ; \
           chmod 1755 "$(DESTDIR)${bindir}/$(EMACSFULL)" || true; \
@@ -511,12 +495,7 @@ install-arch-dep: src install-arch-indep install-etcdoc install-$(NTDIR)
 ### in nt/, and its Posix do-nothing shadow.
 install-:
 install-nt:
-        cd $(NTDIR) && \
-          $(MAKE) install $(MFLAGS) prefix="${prefix}" \
-            exec_prefix="${exec_prefix}" bindir="${bindir}" \
-            libexecdir="${libexecdir}" archlibdir="${archlibdir}" \
-            datadir="${datadir}" \
-            INSTALL_STRIP=${INSTALL_STRIP}
+        cd $(NTDIR) && $(MAKE) install
 
 ## In the share directory, we are deleting:
 ## applications (with emacs.desktop, also found in etc/)
@@ -729,19 +708,14 @@ install-etc:
 
 ### Build Emacs and install it, stripping binaries while installing them.
 install-strip:
-        $(MAKE) $(MFLAGS) INSTALL_STRIP=-s install
+        $(MAKE) INSTALL_STRIP=-s install
 
 ### Delete all the installed files that the `install' target would
 ### create (but not the noninstalled files such as `make all' would create).
 ###
 ### Don't delete the lisp and etc directories if they're in the source tree.
 uninstall: uninstall-$(NTDIR) uninstall-doc
-        cd lib-src &&                                   \
-         $(MAKE) $(MFLAGS) uninstall                    \
-            prefix="${prefix}" exec_prefix="${exec_prefix}" \
-            bindir="${bindir}" libexecdir="${libexecdir}" \
-            archlibdir="${archlibdir}"
-
+        cd lib-src && $(MAKE) uninstall
         -unset CDPATH; \
         for dir in "$(DESTDIR)${lispdir}" "$(DESTDIR)${etcdir}" ; do    \
           if [ -d "$${dir}" ]; then                     \
@@ -790,11 +764,7 @@ uninstall: uninstall-$(NTDIR) uninstall-doc
 ### in nt/, and its Posix do-nothing shadow.
 uninstall-:
 uninstall-nt:
-        cd $(NTDIR) &&                                  \
-         $(MAKE) $(MFLAGS) uninstall                    \
-            prefix="${prefix}" exec_prefix="${exec_prefix}" \
-            bindir="${bindir}" libexecdir="${libexecdir}" \
-            archlibdir="${archlibdir}"
+        cd $(NTDIR) && $(MAKE) uninstall
 
 # ==================== Cleaning up and miscellanea ====================
 
@@ -806,16 +776,16 @@ uninstall-nt:
 ###      target for GCC does not delete `libgcc.a', because recompiling it
 ###      is rarely necessary and takes a lot of time.
 mostlyclean:
-        cd src      && $(MAKE) $(MFLAGS) mostlyclean
-        cd oldXMenu && $(MAKE) $(MFLAGS) mostlyclean
-        cd lwlib    && $(MAKE) $(MFLAGS) mostlyclean
-        cd lib      && $(MAKE) $(MFLAGS) mostlyclean
-        cd lib-src  && $(MAKE) $(MFLAGS) mostlyclean
-        cd nt       && $(MAKE) $(MFLAGS) mostlyclean
-        -cd doc/emacs     && $(MAKE) $(MFLAGS) mostlyclean
-        -cd doc/misc      && $(MAKE) $(MFLAGS) mostlyclean
-        -cd doc/lispref   && $(MAKE) $(MFLAGS) mostlyclean
-        -cd doc/lispintro && $(MAKE) $(MFLAGS) mostlyclean
+        cd src      && $(MAKE) mostlyclean
+        cd oldXMenu && $(MAKE) mostlyclean
+        cd lwlib    && $(MAKE) mostlyclean
+        cd lib      && $(MAKE) mostlyclean
+        cd lib-src  && $(MAKE) mostlyclean
+        cd nt       && $(MAKE) mostlyclean
+        -cd doc/emacs     && $(MAKE) mostlyclean
+        -cd doc/misc      && $(MAKE) mostlyclean
+        -cd doc/lispref   && $(MAKE) mostlyclean
+        -cd doc/lispintro && $(MAKE) mostlyclean
 
 ### `clean'
 ###      Delete all files from the current directory that are normally
@@ -827,17 +797,17 @@ mostlyclean:
 ###      Delete `.dvi' files here if they are not part of the distribution.
 clean:
         -rm -f etc/emacs.tmpdesktop
-        cd src      && $(MAKE) $(MFLAGS) clean
-        cd oldXMenu && $(MAKE) $(MFLAGS) clean
-        cd lwlib    && $(MAKE) $(MFLAGS) clean
-        cd lib      && $(MAKE) $(MFLAGS) clean
-        cd lib-src  && $(MAKE) $(MFLAGS) clean
-        cd nt       && $(MAKE) $(MFLAGS) clean
-        -cd doc/emacs     && $(MAKE) $(MFLAGS) clean
-        -cd doc/misc      && $(MAKE) $(MFLAGS) clean
-        -cd doc/lispref   && $(MAKE) $(MFLAGS) clean
-        -cd doc/lispintro && $(MAKE) $(MFLAGS) clean
-        cd nextstep && $(MAKE) $(MFLAGS) clean
+        cd src      && $(MAKE) clean
+        cd oldXMenu && $(MAKE) clean
+        cd lwlib    && $(MAKE) clean
+        cd lib      && $(MAKE) clean
+        cd lib-src  && $(MAKE) clean
+        cd nt       && $(MAKE) clean
+        -cd doc/emacs     && $(MAKE) clean
+        -cd doc/misc      && $(MAKE) clean
+        -cd doc/lispref   && $(MAKE) clean
+        -cd doc/lispintro && $(MAKE) clean
+        cd nextstep && $(MAKE) clean
 
 ### `bootclean'
 ###      Delete all files that need to be remade for a clean bootstrap.
@@ -853,21 +823,21 @@ top_distclean=\
         ${top_bootclean}; \
         rm -f config.status config.log~ Makefile stamp-h1 ${SUBDIR_MAKEFILES}
 distclean:
-        cd src      && $(MAKE) $(MFLAGS) distclean
-        cd oldXMenu && $(MAKE) $(MFLAGS) distclean
-        cd lwlib    && $(MAKE) $(MFLAGS) distclean
-        cd lib      && $(MAKE) $(MFLAGS) distclean
-        cd lib-src  && $(MAKE) $(MFLAGS) distclean
-        cd nt       && $(MAKE) $(MFLAGS) distclean
-        cd doc/emacs     && $(MAKE) $(MFLAGS) distclean
-        cd doc/misc      && $(MAKE) $(MFLAGS) distclean
-        cd doc/lispref   && $(MAKE) $(MFLAGS) distclean
-        cd doc/lispintro && $(MAKE) $(MFLAGS) distclean
-        cd leim     && $(MAKE) $(MFLAGS) distclean
-        cd lisp     && $(MAKE) $(MFLAGS) distclean
-        cd nextstep && $(MAKE) $(MFLAGS) distclean
+        cd src      && $(MAKE) distclean
+        cd oldXMenu && $(MAKE) distclean
+        cd lwlib    && $(MAKE) distclean
+        cd lib      && $(MAKE) distclean
+        cd lib-src  && $(MAKE) distclean
+        cd nt       && $(MAKE) distclean
+        cd doc/emacs     && $(MAKE) distclean
+        cd doc/misc      && $(MAKE) distclean
+        cd doc/lispref   && $(MAKE) distclean
+        cd doc/lispintro && $(MAKE) distclean
+        cd leim     && $(MAKE) distclean
+        cd lisp     && $(MAKE) distclean
+        cd nextstep && $(MAKE) distclean
         for dir in test/automated admin/grammars admin/unidata; do \
-          [ ! -d $$dir ] || (cd $$dir && $(MAKE) $(MFLAGS) distclean); \
+          [ ! -d $$dir ] || (cd $$dir && $(MAKE) distclean); \
         done
         ${top_distclean}
 
@@ -875,21 +845,21 @@ distclean:
 ###      Delete everything that can be reconstructed by `make' and that
 ###      needs to be deleted in order to force a bootstrap from a clean state.
 bootstrap-clean:
-        cd src      && $(MAKE) $(MFLAGS) bootstrap-clean
-        cd oldXMenu && $(MAKE) $(MFLAGS) maintainer-clean
-        cd lwlib    && $(MAKE) $(MFLAGS) maintainer-clean
-        cd lib      && $(MAKE) $(MFLAGS) maintainer-clean
-        cd lib-src  && $(MAKE) $(MFLAGS) maintainer-clean
-        cd nt       && $(MAKE) $(MFLAGS) maintainer-clean
-        -cd doc/emacs     && $(MAKE) $(MFLAGS) maintainer-clean
-        -cd doc/misc      && $(MAKE) $(MFLAGS) maintainer-clean
-        -cd doc/lispref   && $(MAKE) $(MFLAGS) maintainer-clean
-        -cd doc/lispintro && $(MAKE) $(MFLAGS) maintainer-clean
-        cd leim     && $(MAKE) $(MFLAGS) bootstrap-clean
-        cd lisp     && $(MAKE) $(MFLAGS) bootstrap-clean
-        cd nextstep && $(MAKE) $(MFLAGS) maintainer-clean
+        cd src      && $(MAKE) bootstrap-clean
+        cd oldXMenu && $(MAKE) maintainer-clean
+        cd lwlib    && $(MAKE) maintainer-clean
+        cd lib      && $(MAKE) maintainer-clean
+        cd lib-src  && $(MAKE) maintainer-clean
+        cd nt       && $(MAKE) maintainer-clean
+        -cd doc/emacs     && $(MAKE) maintainer-clean
+        -cd doc/misc      && $(MAKE) maintainer-clean
+        -cd doc/lispref   && $(MAKE) maintainer-clean
+        -cd doc/lispintro && $(MAKE) maintainer-clean
+        cd leim     && $(MAKE) bootstrap-clean
+        cd lisp     && $(MAKE) bootstrap-clean
+        cd nextstep && $(MAKE) maintainer-clean
         for dir in test/automated admin/grammars admin/unidata; do \
-          [ ! -d $$dir ] || (cd $$dir && $(MAKE) $(MFLAGS) bootstrap-clean); \
+          [ ! -d $$dir ] || (cd $$dir && $(MAKE) bootstrap-clean); \
         done
         [ ! -f config.log ] || mv -f config.log config.log~
         rm -rf ${srcdir}/info
@@ -910,11 +880,11 @@ top_maintainer_clean=\
         ${top_distclean}; \
         rm -fr autom4te.cache
 maintainer-clean: bootstrap-clean
-        cd src  && $(MAKE) $(MFLAGS) maintainer-clean
-        cd leim && $(MAKE) $(MFLAGS) maintainer-clean
-        cd lisp && $(MAKE) $(MFLAGS) maintainer-clean
+        cd src  && $(MAKE) maintainer-clean
+        cd leim && $(MAKE) maintainer-clean
+        cd lisp && $(MAKE) maintainer-clean
         for dir in test/automated admin/grammars admin/unidata; do \
-          [ ! -d $$dir ] || (cd $$dir && $(MAKE) $(MFLAGS) maintainer-clean); \
+          [ ! -d $$dir ] || (cd $$dir && $(MAKE) maintainer-clean); \
         done
         ${top_maintainer_clean}
 
@@ -923,7 +893,7 @@ maintainer-clean: bootstrap-clean
 ### the coding standards seem to come from.  It's like distclean, but
 ### it deletes backup and autosave files too.
 extraclean:
-        for i in ${SUBDIR}; do (cd $$i; $(MAKE) $(MFLAGS) extraclean); done
+        for i in ${SUBDIR}; do (cd $$i; $(MAKE) extraclean); done
         ${top_maintainer_clean}
         -rm -f config-tmp-*
         -rm -f *~ \#*
@@ -932,14 +902,14 @@ extraclean:
 # even when the build directory and source dir are different.
 .PHONY: TAGS tags
 TAGS tags: lib lib-src src
-        cd src; $(MAKE) $(MFLAGS) tags
+        cd src && $(MAKE) tags
 
 check: all
         @if test ! -d test/automated; then \
           echo "You do not seem to have the test/ directory."; \
           echo "Maybe you are using a release tarfile, rather than a repository checkout."; \
         else \
-          cd test/automated && $(MAKE) $(MFLAGS) check; \
+          cd test/automated && $(MAKE) check; \
         fi
 
 dist:
@@ -953,7 +923,7 @@ PSS   = lispref-ps   lispintro-ps   emacs-ps   misc-ps
 
 DOCS = $(DVIS) $(HTMLS) $(INFOS) $(PDFS) $(PSS)
 $(DOCS):
-        t=$@; IFS=-; set $$t; IFS=; cd doc/$$1 && $(MAKE) $(MFLAGS) $$2
+        t=$@; IFS=-; set $$t; IFS=; cd doc/$$1 && $(MAKE) $$2
 
 .PHONY: $(DOCS) docs pdf ps
 .PHONY: info dvi dist check html info-real info-dir check-info
@@ -1002,7 +972,7 @@ INSTALL_DOC = $(INSTALL_DVI) $(INSTALL_HTML) $(INSTALL_PDF) $(INSTALL_PS)
 ## Install non .info forms of the documentation.
 ## TODO add etc/refcards.
 $(INSTALL_DOC):
-        t=$@; IFS=-; set $$t; IFS=; cd doc/$$2 && $(MAKE) $(MFLAGS) $$1-$$3
+        t=$@; IFS=-; set $$t; IFS=; cd doc/$$2 && $(MAKE) $$1-$$3
 
 .PHONY: $(INSTALL_DOC) install-doc
 .PHONY: install-dvi install-html install-pdf install-ps
@@ -1025,7 +995,7 @@ UNINSTALL_PS = uninstall-emacs-ps uninstall-lispref-ps \
 UNINSTALL_DOC = $(UNINSTALL_DVI) $(UNINSTALL_HTML) $(UNINSTALL_PDF) $(UNINSTALL_PS)
 
 $(UNINSTALL_DOC):
-        t=$@; IFS=-; set $$t; IFS=; cd doc/$$2 && $(MAKE) $(MFLAGS) $$1-$$3
+        t=$@; IFS=-; set $$t; IFS=; cd doc/$$2 && $(MAKE) $$1-$$3
 
 .PHONY: $(UNINSTALL_DOC) uninstall-doc
 .PHONY: uninstall-dvi uninstall-html uninstall-pdf uninstall-ps
@@ -1052,7 +1022,7 @@ info:
         @if test "$(HAVE_MAKEINFO)" = "no"; then \
           echo "Configured --without-makeinfo, not building manuals" ; \
         else \
-          $(MAKE) $(MFLAGS) info-real info-dir; \
+          $(MAKE) info-real info-dir; \
         fi
 
 ## build-aux/make-info-dir expects only certain dircategories.
@@ -1092,8 +1062,8 @@ check-info: info
 #  * Do the actual build.
 bootstrap: bootstrap-clean
         cd $(srcdir) && ./autogen.sh
-        $(MAKE) $(MFLAGS) MAKEFILE_NAME=force-Makefile force-Makefile
-        $(MAKE) $(MFLAGS) all
+        $(MAKE) MAKEFILE_NAME=force-Makefile force-Makefile
+        $(MAKE) all
 
 .PHONY: check-declare
 
@@ -1102,4 +1072,4 @@ check-declare:
           echo "You must build Emacs to use this command"; \
           exit 1; \
         fi
-        cd lisp && $(MAKE) $(MFLAGS) $@
+        cd lisp && $(MAKE) $@
diff --git a/admin/ChangeLog b/admin/ChangeLog
index 4419d90fcd6..02d8dc08eac 100644
--- a/admin/ChangeLog
+++ b/admin/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2014-06-13  Glenn Morris  <rgm@gnu.org>
+
+        * unidata/Makefile.in (${DSTDIR}/charprop.el):
+        GNU make automatically passes command-line arguments to sub-makes.
+
 2014-06-02  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
 
         Include sources used to create macuvs.h.
diff --git a/admin/unidata/Makefile.in b/admin/unidata/Makefile.in
index 3074864bb68..c86fff0bab4 100644
--- a/admin/unidata/Makefile.in
+++ b/admin/unidata/Makefile.in
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ compile: ${srcdir}/unidata-gen.elc
 ## uni-*.el files just because .elc is missing.
 ## Same for UnicodeData.txt v unidata.txt.
 ${DSTDIR}/charprop.el: ${srcdir}/unidata-gen.el ${srcdir}/UnicodeData.txt
-        ${MAKE} ${MFLAGS} compile unidata.txt EMACS="${EMACS}"
+        ${MAKE} compile unidata.txt EMACS="${EMACS}"
         -if [ -f "$@" ]; then \
           cd ${DSTDIR} && chmod +w charprop.el `sed -n 's/^;; FILE: //p' < charprop.el`; \
         fi
diff --git a/lib-src/ChangeLog b/lib-src/ChangeLog
index d7c755e67f0..2586cfdd393 100644
--- a/lib-src/ChangeLog
+++ b/lib-src/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2014-06-13  Glenn Morris  <rgm@gnu.org>
+
+        * Makefile.in (../lib/libgnu.a):
+        GNU make automatically passes command-line arguments to sub-makes.
+
 2014-05-26  Eli Zaretskii  <eliz@gnu.org>
 
         * ntlib.h (lseek): Don't redirect to _lseek.
diff --git a/lib-src/Makefile.in b/lib-src/Makefile.in
index 3009ff26745..c7183fe751e 100644
--- a/lib-src/Makefile.in
+++ b/lib-src/Makefile.in
@@ -304,7 +304,7 @@ TAGS: etags${EXEEXT}
         etags *.[ch]
 
 ../lib/libgnu.a: $(config_h)
-        cd ../lib && $(MAKE) $(MFLAGS) libgnu.a
+        cd ../lib && $(MAKE) libgnu.a
 
 regex.o: $(srcdir)/../src/regex.c $(srcdir)/../src/regex.h $(config_h)
         ${CC} -c ${CPP_CFLAGS} ${srcdir}/../src/regex.c
diff --git a/lisp/ChangeLog b/lisp/ChangeLog
index 0d4bfe84ac2..1ce8092f79e 100644
--- a/lisp/ChangeLog
+++ b/lisp/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
 2014-06-13  Glenn Morris  <rgm@gnu.org>
 
+        * Makefile.in ($(lisp)/cus-load.el, $(lisp)/finder-inf.el)
+        (autoloads, $(lisp)/subdirs.el, compile-main, leim, semantic, compile)
+        (compile-always): GNU make automatically passes
+        command-line arguments to sub-makes.
+
         * calendar/calendar.el (calendar-generate-window):
         Remove pointless call to font-lock-fontify-buffer.
 
diff --git a/lisp/Makefile.in b/lisp/Makefile.in
index a57b818e143..6504539ba42 100644
--- a/lisp/Makefile.in
+++ b/lisp/Makefile.in
@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ doit:
 # since they will never contain any useful information
 # (see finder-no-scan-regexp and custom-dependencies-no-scan-regexp).
 $(lisp)/cus-load.el:
-        $(MAKE) $(MFLAGS) custom-deps
+        $(MAKE) custom-deps
 custom-deps: doit
         $(setwins_almost); \
         echo Directories: $$wins; \
@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ custom-deps: doit
           -f custom-make-dependencies $$wins
 
 $(lisp)/finder-inf.el:
-        $(MAKE) $(MFLAGS) finder-data
+        $(MAKE) finder-data
 finder-data: doit
         $(setwins_finder); \
         echo Directories: $$wins; \
@@ -200,7 +200,7 @@ autoloads: $(LOADDEFS) doit
             --eval '(setq autoload-builtin-package-versions t)' \
             --eval '(setq generated-autoload-file (expand-file-name (unmsys--file-name "$(srcdir)/loaddefs.el")))' \
             -f batch-update-autoloads $$wins
-        $(MAKE) $(MFLAGS) obsolete-autoloads
+        $(MAKE) obsolete-autoloads
 
 # The obsolete/ subdirectory is normally not scanned for autoloads.
 # Sometimes we still want to autoload something from that directory,
@@ -215,7 +215,7 @@ obsolete-autoloads: ${lisp}/obsolete/*.el
 # This is required by the bootstrap-emacs target in ../src/Makefile, so
 # we know that if we have an emacs executable, we also have a subdirs.el.
 $(lisp)/subdirs.el:
-        $(MAKE) $(MFLAGS) update-subdirs
+        $(MAKE) update-subdirs
 update-subdirs: doit
         $(setwins_for_subdirs); \
         for file in $$wins; do \
@@ -307,7 +307,7 @@ compile-onefile:
 compile-first: $(COMPILE_FIRST)
 
 # In `compile-main' we could directly do
-#    ... | xargs $(MAKE) $(MFLAGS) EMACS="$(EMACS)"
+#    ... | xargs $(MAKE) EMACS="$(EMACS)"
 # and it works, but it generates a lot of messages like
 #    make[2]: gnus/gnus-mlspl.elc is up to date.
 # so instead, we use "xargs echo" to split the list of file into manageable
@@ -331,7 +331,7 @@ compile-main: leim semantic compile-clean
           echo "$${el}c"; \
         done | xargs $(XARGS_LIMIT) echo) | \
         while read chunk; do \
-          $(MAKE) $(MFLAGS) compile-targets EMACS="$(EMACS)" TARGETS="$$chunk"; \
+          $(MAKE) compile-targets EMACS="$(EMACS)" TARGETS="$$chunk"; \
         done
 
 .PHONY: compile-clean
@@ -348,7 +348,7 @@ compile-clean:
 
 .PHONY: leim semantic
 leim:
-        cd ../leim && $(MAKE) $(MFLAGS) all EMACS="$(EMACS)"
+        cd ../leim && $(MAKE) all EMACS="$(EMACS)"
 
 # FIXME.  Yuck.
 semantic:
@@ -356,7 +356,7 @@ semantic:
           .*) EMACS="../${EMACS}" ;; \
            *) EMACS="${EMACS}" ;; \
         esac; \
-        cd ../admin/grammars && $(MAKE) $(MFLAGS) all EMACS="$${EMACS}"
+        cd ../admin/grammars && $(MAKE) all EMACS="$${EMACS}"
 
 # Compile all Lisp files, but don't recompile those that are up to
 # date.  Some .el files don't get compiled because they set the
@@ -365,14 +365,14 @@ semantic:
 # Explicitly pass EMACS (sometimes ../src/bootstrap-emacs) to those
 # sub-makes that run rules that use it, for the sake of some non-GNU makes.
 compile: $(LOADDEFS) autoloads compile-first
-        $(MAKE) $(MFLAGS) compile-main EMACS="$(EMACS)"
+        $(MAKE) compile-main EMACS="$(EMACS)"
 
 # Compile all Lisp files.  This is like `compile' but compiles files
 # unconditionally.  Some files don't actually get compiled because they
 # set the local variable no-byte-compile.
 compile-always: doit
         cd $(lisp) && rm -f *.elc */*.elc */*/*.elc */*/*/*.elc
-        $(MAKE) $(MFLAGS) compile EMACS="$(EMACS)"
+        $(MAKE) compile EMACS="$(EMACS)"
 
 .PHONY: backup-compiled-files compile-after-backup
 
diff --git a/lwlib/ChangeLog b/lwlib/ChangeLog
index 5a5d1e703fd..c62b72ab9a1 100644
--- a/lwlib/ChangeLog
+++ b/lwlib/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2014-06-13  Glenn Morris  <rgm@gnu.org>
+
+        * Makefile.in ($(globals_h)):
+        GNU make automatically passes command-line arguments to sub-makes.
+
 2014-06-04  Dmitry Antipov  <dmantipov@yandex.ru>
 
         * lwlib-widget.h (widget_value) [USE_X_TOOLKIT]: Use X toolkit
diff --git a/lwlib/Makefile.in b/lwlib/Makefile.in
index 8bdd2bbbf3d..145f6ec56c5 100644
--- a/lwlib/Makefile.in
+++ b/lwlib/Makefile.in
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ globals_h = ../src/globals.h
 src_h = $(config_h) $(lisp_h) $(globals_h)
 
 $(globals_h):
-        cd ../src && $(MAKE) $(MFLAGS) globals.h
+        cd ../src && $(MAKE) globals.h
 
 lwlib-utils.o: $(src_h) lwlib-utils.c lwlib-utils.h lwlib.h
 lwlib.o:       $(src_h) lwlib.c lwlib.h lwlib-int.h lwlib-utils.h \
diff --git a/src/ChangeLog b/src/ChangeLog
index 6db73ca7f69..5fc04c10f59 100644
--- a/src/ChangeLog
+++ b/src/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+2014-06-13  Glenn Morris  <rgm@gnu.org>
+
+        * Makefile.in ($(leimdir)/leim-list.el, $(srcdir)/macuvs.h)
+        ($(lispsource)/international/charprop.el)
+        ($(libsrc)/make-docfile$(EXEEXT), $(lwlibdir)/liblw.a)
+        ($(oldXMenudir)/libXMenu11.a, ns-app, .el.elc)
+        ($(lispsource)/loaddefs.el, bootstrap-emacs$(EXEEXT)):
+        GNU make automatically passes command-line arguments to sub-makes.
+
 2014-06-13  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
 
         Avoid hangs in accept-process-output (Bug#17647).
diff --git a/src/Makefile.in b/src/Makefile.in
index bda4623d7de..c858220c432 100644
--- a/src/Makefile.in
+++ b/src/Makefile.in
@@ -414,11 +414,11 @@ all: emacs$(EXEEXT) $(OTHER_FILES)
 .PHONY: all
 
 $(leimdir)/leim-list.el: bootstrap-emacs$(EXEEXT)
-        cd ../leim && $(MAKE) $(MFLAGS) leim-list.el EMACS="$(bootstrap_exe)"
+        cd ../leim && $(MAKE) leim-list.el EMACS="$(bootstrap_exe)"
 
 $(srcdir)/macuvs.h $(lispsource)/international/charprop.el: \
   bootstrap-emacs$(EXEEXT)
-        cd ../admin/unidata && $(MAKE) $(MFLAGS) all EMACS="../$(bootstrap_exe)"
+        cd ../admin/unidata && $(MAKE) all EMACS="../$(bootstrap_exe)"
 
 ## The dumped Emacs is as functional and more efficient than
 ## bootstrap-emacs, so we replace the latter with the former.
@@ -459,7 +459,7 @@ $(etc)/DOC: $(libsrc)/make-docfile$(EXEEXT) $(obj) $(lisp)
         $(libsrc)/make-docfile -a $(etc)/DOC -d $(lispsource) `sed -n -e 's| \\\\||' -e 's|^[   ]*$$(lispsource)/||p' $(srcdir)/lisp.mk`
 
 $(libsrc)/make-docfile$(EXEEXT):
-        cd $(libsrc); $(MAKE) $(MFLAGS) make-docfile$(EXEEXT)
+        cd $(libsrc); $(MAKE) make-docfile$(EXEEXT)
 
 buildobj.h: Makefile
         for i in $(ALLOBJS); do \
@@ -499,13 +499,9 @@ temacs$(EXEEXT): $(LIBXMENU) $(ALLOBJS) \
 ## The following oldxmenu-related rules are only (possibly) used if
 ## HAVE_X11 && !USE_GTK, but there is no harm in always defining them.
 $(lwlibdir)/liblw.a: $(config_h) globals.h lisp.h FORCE
-        cd $(lwlibdir) && \
-          $(MAKE) $(MFLAGS) CC='$(CC)' CFLAGS='$(CFLAGS)' MAKE='$(MAKE)' \
-            liblw.a
+        cd $(lwlibdir) && $(MAKE) liblw.a
 $(oldXMenudir)/libXMenu11.a: FORCE
-        cd $(oldXMenudir) && \
-          $(MAKE) $(MFLAGS) CC='$(CC)' CFLAGS='$(CFLAGS)' MAKE='$(MAKE)' \
-            libXMenu11.a
+        cd $(oldXMenudir) && $(MAKE) libXMenu11.a
 FORCE:
 .PHONY: FORCE
 
@@ -523,7 +519,7 @@ emacs.res: $(ntsource)/emacs.rc \
           -o $@ $(ntsource)/emacs.rc
 
 ns-app: emacs$(EXEEXT)
-        cd ../nextstep && $(MAKE) $(MFLAGS) all
+        cd ../nextstep && $(MAKE) all
 
 .PHONY: mostlyclean clean bootstrap-clean distclean maintainer-clean
 .PHONY: versionclean extraclean
@@ -621,7 +617,7 @@ tags: TAGS ../lisp/TAGS $(lwlibdir)/TAGS
 ## separately below.
 ## With GNU Make, we would just say "%.el : %.elc $(BOOTSTRAPEMACS)"
 .el.elc:
-        @cd ../lisp; $(MAKE) $(MFLAGS) compile-onefile \
+        @cd ../lisp && $(MAKE) compile-onefile \
                              THEFILE=$< EMACS="$(bootstrap_exe)"
 
 ## Since the .el.elc rule cannot specify an extra dependency, we do it here.
@@ -633,12 +629,12 @@ $(lisp): $(BOOTSTRAPEMACS)
 VCSWITNESS =
 
 $(lispsource)/loaddefs.el: $(BOOTSTRAPEMACS) $(VCSWITNESS)
-        cd ../lisp; $(MAKE) $(MFLAGS) autoloads EMACS="$(bootstrap_exe)"
+        cd ../lisp && $(MAKE) autoloads EMACS="$(bootstrap_exe)"
 
 ## Dump an Emacs executable named bootstrap-emacs containing the
 ## files from loadup.el in source form.
 bootstrap-emacs$(EXEEXT): temacs$(EXEEXT)
-        cd ../lisp; $(MAKE) $(MFLAGS) update-subdirs
+        cd ../lisp && $(MAKE) update-subdirs
         if test "$(CANNOT_DUMP)" = "yes"; then \
           rm -f bootstrap-emacs$(EXEEXT); \
           ln temacs$(EXEEXT) bootstrap-emacs$(EXEEXT); \
@@ -648,7 +644,7 @@ bootstrap-emacs$(EXEEXT): temacs$(EXEEXT)
           mv -f emacs$(EXEEXT) bootstrap-emacs$(EXEEXT); \
         fi
         @: Compile some files earlier to speed up further compilation.
-        cd ../lisp; $(MAKE) $(MFLAGS) compile-first EMACS="$(bootstrap_exe)"
+        cd ../lisp && $(MAKE) compile-first EMACS="$(bootstrap_exe)"
 
 ## Insert either autodeps.mk (if AUTO_DEPEND), else deps.mk.
 @deps_frag@
diff --git a/test/ChangeLog b/test/ChangeLog
index bb8ed89bed0..39470d7a79d 100644
--- a/test/ChangeLog
+++ b/test/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2014-06-13  Glenn Morris  <rgm@gnu.org>
+
+        * automated/Makefile.in (compile-main):
+        GNU make automatically passes command-line arguments to sub-makes.
+
 2014-06-05  Michal Nazarewicz  <mina86@mina86.com>
 
         * automated/tildify-tests.el (tildify-test--test): Optimise the test
diff --git a/test/automated/Makefile.in b/test/automated/Makefile.in
index 9d9f60e3efe..e0800f09eb0 100644
--- a/test/automated/Makefile.in
+++ b/test/automated/Makefile.in
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ compile-main: compile-clean
           echo "$${el}c"; \
         done | xargs $(XARGS_LIMIT) echo | \
         while read chunk; do \
-          $(MAKE) $(MFLAGS) compile-targets EMACS="$(EMACS)" TARGETS="$$chunk"; \
+          $(MAKE) compile-targets EMACS="$(EMACS)" TARGETS="$$chunk"; \
         done
 
 # Erase left-over .elc files that do not have a corresponding .el file.