On Wed, 15 May 1996, Guy Maor wrote: > On Wed, 15 May 1996, Craig Sanders wrote: > > try my script and see if it makes any difference. Maybe the > > variables DO have to be explicitly exported. > > They do. Otherwise they're only seen in the shell and not in any > program or subshell. The environment is the same whether you exec or > run fvwm.
yeah, but isn't "CFLAGS=-O2 make" the same as "export CFLAGS=-O2 ; make" as far as make is concerned? Carlos' script should have worked because that was basically what he was doing. Craig