> Except by explicit request, `make' exports a variable only if it is
either defined in the environment initially or set on the command line, and ***if its name consists only of letters, numbers, and underscores.*** Some shells cannot cope with environment variable names consisting of characters other than letters, numbers, and underscores. Yes thank you I missed this paragraph. My bad. I read the one above but did not see this one. >Well, the *real* simplest is to make the variable names conform to the environment syntax, but that isn't always an option. Yes I wish I could. Intel's dpdk software makefiles are exporting variables with dashes.... Auwe!! I am not an Intel employee. Turns out, variables with dashes, are accepted from GNU Make by some some shells, not others. Case in point, in works on dash 0.5.5.1. But it turns out, what I was hacking, was the latest dash, 0.5.8. It does NOT work on that one... I thought, I will just grab the latest and go with it. Bad mistake :) Thank you everybody. Mark _______________________________________________ Help-make mailing list Help-make@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-make
