Paul Smith writes:
> On Wed, 2017-01-11 at 19:10 +0300, Sergey Organov wrote:
>> > Some sort of loop detection on variable expansion needs to be
>> > implemented.
>>
>> Can't it rather be solved by exporting variables to the $(shell)
>> unexpanded?
>
> Well, that would be a major difference in t
On Wed, 2017-01-11 at 19:10 +0300, Sergey Organov wrote:
> > Some sort of loop detection on variable expansion needs to be
> > implemented.
>
> Can't it rather be solved by exporting variables to the $(shell)
> unexpanded?
Well, that would be a major difference in the way make works, and
probably
Paul Smith writes:
> On Wed, 2017-01-11 at 17:49 +0300, Sergey Organov wrote:
>> It looks like exporting variables to $(shell) function
>> doesn't work.
>
> This is https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?10593
>
> It should be made to work, but unfortunately it's not completely trivial
> to fix, since yo
On Wed, 2017-01-11 at 17:49 +0300, Sergey Organov wrote:
> It looks like exporting variables to $(shell) function
> doesn't work.
This is https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?10593
It should be made to work, but unfortunately it's not completely trivial
to fix, since you can have infinite loops like:
Hello,
It looks like exporting variables to $(shell) function
doesn't work.
Here is a test to demonstrate the issue:
$ cat Makefile
override MY_VAR := OK
export MY_VAR
var := $(shell echo "Exported to shell in function: [$$MY_VAR]")
all:
@echo "In make: [$(MY_VAR)]"
@echo "Expor
