Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: >> >> Would this part from Automake-generated Makefiles have any impact on >> the proposal? >> >> # Tell versions [3.59,3.63) of GNU make to not export all variables. >> # Otherwise a system limit (for SysV at least) may be exceeded. >> .NOEXPORT: > > Here is some text from the GNU make manual. > > "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. > > The special variables SHELL and MAKEFLAGS are always exported (unless > you unexport them). MAKEFILES is exported if you set > it to anything. > > make automatically passes down variable values that were defined on > the command line, by putting them in the MAKEFLAGS > variable." > > I don't see evidence that srcdir will normally be available in > libtool's environment.
I assume you mean bindir, not srcdir? In which case, my answer is: Yes, thats why special attention of required to _make_ it available. Max. _______________________________________________ Libtool mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libtool
