exported variables stopped working when migrating make from 4.0 to 4.1

2017-04-13 Thread Juha Heinanen
Perhaps someone can give a hint why exported variables stopped working when I upgraded from Debian Jessie, where make is 4.0, to Debian Stretch, where make is 4.1. I have in main directory Makefile and Makefile.defs and Makefile's in sub-directors. In Makefile.defs there is, for example: ---

Re: exported variables stopped working when migrating make from 4.0 to 4.1

2017-04-14 Thread Juha Heinanen
Paul Smith writes: > I can't explain this nor reproduce it. On my system no matter what > version of GNU make I test with, all the way back to 3.77, I get the > same, expected behavior: the variable is not exported. Paul, Thank you very much for your reply. As you told, cause of the problem wa