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From: Michael Zimmermann <sigmaepsilon92@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2017 17:43:38 +0100
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Subject: Re: overriding variables from cmdline used in fdf broken?
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I forgot to CC the maintainers back then so I'm doing this now.

Thanks
Michael

On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 11:13 AM, Michael Zimmermann
<sigmaepsilon92@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> when I override or set a variable using -DNAME=VAL from the build cmdline
> these are visible to the DSC file only, the FDF continues using the
> old/undefined values - at least if you use them as a value, i.e.:
> BaseAddress   = $(FD_BASE)|gArmTokenSpaceGuid.PcdFdBaseAddress
>
> is this intended behavior or a bug?
>
> Michael