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Re: make doesn't inherit shell vars? (Was RE: wmmake problem)


On Mon, 21 Jun 2004, Vasoczki Ferenc wrote:

> 1st of all, sorry.
> But i think, a makefile syntax, and the cygwin environment variable is
> not an SGT related problem
> Forget the SGT.
>
> I made a variable in .bashrc :
> mydir=/var/www
> export mydir
>
> and in a makefile there is a reference:
> include $(mydir)/myproject/something/a.mak
>
> echo $mydir
> $ /var/www/
>
> and when i am compile, the system sad, cannot find
> /myproject/something/a.mak because the system don't know the value of
> the $mydir environment variable.
>
> so ?
>
> Vaso
>
> -----Original Message-----
> [snip]

Again, <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR>.

Secondly, this is still not Cygwin-related -- it's a general bash
situation.  Please read the bash man page, especially the INVOCATION
section ('PAGER="less -isRrp ^INVOCATION" man bash').  Hint: note the
difference between .bashrc and .bash_profile.

FYI, the following works:

$ pwd
/tmp/maketest
$ cat blah.mak
include $(mydir)/maketest/bar.mk
$ cat bar.mk
all:;	echo "Got target"
$ export mydir=/tmp
$ make -f blah.mak
echo "Got target"
Got target
$
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