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You may notice that the `export' and `unexport' directives work in `make' in the same way they work in the shell, `sh'. If you want all variables to be exported by default, you can use `export' by itself: export This tells `make' that variables which are not explicitly mentioned in an `export' or `unexport' directive should be exported. Any variable given in an `unexport' directive will still _not_ be exported. If you use `export' by itself to export variables by default, variables whose names contain characters other than alphanumerics and underscores will not be exported unless specifically mentioned in an `export' directive. The behavior elicited by an `export' directive by itself was the default in older versions of GNU `make'. If your makefiles depend on this behavior and you want to be compatible with old versions of `make', you can write a rule for the special target `.EXPORT_ALL_VARIABLES' instead of using the `export' directive. This will be ignored by old `make's, while the `export' directive will cause a syntax error. Likewise, you can use `unexport' by itself to tell `make' _not_ to export variables by default. Since this is the default behavior, you would only need to do this if `export' had been used by itself earlier (in an included makefile, perhaps). You *cannot* use `export' and `unexport' by themselves to have variables exported for some recipes and not for others. The last `export' or `unexport' directive that appears by itself determines the behavior for the entire run of `make'. As a special feature, the variable `MAKELEVEL' is changed when it is passed down from level to level. This variable's value is a string which is the depth of the level as a decimal number. The value is `0' for the top-level `make'; `1' for a sub-`make', `2' for a sub-sub-`make', and so on. The incrementation happens when `make' sets up the environment for a recipe. The main use of `MAKELEVEL' is to test it in a conditional directive (*note Conditional Parts of Makefiles: Conditionals.); this way you can write a makefile that behaves one way if run recursively and another way if run directly by you. You can use the variable `MAKEFILES' to cause all sub-`make' commands to use additional makefiles. The value of `MAKEFILES' is a whitespace-separated list of file names. This variable, if defined in the outer-level makefile, is passed down through the environment; then it serves as a list of extra makefiles for the sub-`make' to read before the usual or specified ones. *Note The Variable `MAKEFILES': MAKEFILES Variable.
你也许注意到了 export 和 unexport 指令在make的工作方式和shell的工作方式一致。
如果你想要所有的变量都被缺省地导出，你可以用 export 自身：
export
这告诉make ,没有被显式地在export 或者unexport 中提及的变量，将被导出。任何在unexport指令 中给出的变量仍然不会到处。如果你使用了export自身来缺省地导出变量，名字中包含其他字符的变量将不会导出，除非你在export 指令中特别提及。
被一个export 自身指令引出的行为在旧版本的GNU make 中是缺省的。如果你的makefile依赖于这种行为而且你想要保持对旧版本make的兼容性，你可以为特殊目的 .EXPORT_ALL_VARIABLES 写一个规则，而不是用 export 指令。这个将被旧版本的 make 忽略掉，此时，export 指令会导致一个语法错误。
类似地，你可以使用 unexport 自身来告诉make 缺省地不要到处变量。因为这是缺省的行为，如果export 自身已经被之前使用了(也许是在一个被包含了的makefile里面)你只需要使用 unexport自身就行了。你不能在某些片段里通过使用export自身来导出某些变量同时又通过使用 unexport自身来缺省不导出某些变量。最后出现的export 或者 unexport 指令会决定整个make的行为。
作为一个特殊的功能，变量 MAKELEVEL 在从一层向下一层传递的时候会改变。这个变量的值是一个字符串，是一个10进制数字的深度值。顶级make为0，子make为1，子-子make为2，以此类推。make为一个片段设置环境的时候，发生数值增长。
MAKELEVEL的主要用途是在一个条件性的指令中测试(*note Conditional Parts of Makefiles:Conditionals.)；这样你可以写一个makefile， 在某种条件下递归运行，另外一种条件下直接运行。
你可以使用变量 MAKEFILES来导致所有的make 命令用额外的makefile。MAKEFILES的值是一个空格分隔的文件名字列表。这个值，被定义在外层makefile中，在环境中向下传递；然后给子make提供一个增强makefile列表来读取。*Note The Variable 'MAKEFILES': MAKEFEILES 变量。
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