In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
> Sheldon Hearn wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 14 Dec 1999 15:42:11 +0100, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
> >
> > > > You set all those variables for the first make command, but not for the
> > > > second. What did you expect to happen?
> > >
> > > That make(1) would execute.
> >
> > But what was the PATH set to _before_ you set it for the first execution
> > of make? That's what's important, surely?
>
> It is. Try this:
>
> scones% sh
> % echo $PATH
> /sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:....
> % hash -v
> builtin hash
> builtin echo
> % which ls
> /bin/ls
> % hash -v
> builtin hash
> builtin echo
> /usr/bin/which
> % PATH=/foo:/bar:/bin ls
This line does *not* change $PATH for the next lines.
> <some output>
> % hash -v
> builtin hash
> builtin echo
> /usr/bin/which
> /usr/sbin/ls
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^ Caching index based on temp. path!!!!
> % ls
> ls: not found
$PATH is still /sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:....
Martin
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