Matthias Apitz <g...@unixarea.de> writes: > Hello, > > I was facing a problem in some Makefile/shell-scripting and finally I > could nail it down: > > when you set the environment variable GZIP to something, for example to > let it point to gzip itself, it tries 1st to unpack this file: > > $ GZIP=/usr/bin/gzip export GZIP > $ $GZIP -dc source.tar.gz | wc -l > gzip: /usr/bin/gzip: not in gzip format > 645770 > > o > > $ GZIP=bla export GZIP > $ gzip -dc source.tar.gz | wc -l > gzip: can't stat: bla: No such file or directory > 645770 > > Why is this? It's not mentioned in the man page.
You need to fix the syntax on your 'export' lines. Adding a semicolon before the "export" keyword (or moving it to the next line) is the smallest change to do this. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
