Subject: Re: GNU make 'export'
From: [email-masked] ("Wayne Stewart")

26 Mar 1997 20:45:38 -0800
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It's still a problem with all uppercase variable names:

bash$ cat Makefile

export FOOBAR="set by make"

echoit:
        @env | egrep FOOBAR
bash$ export FOOBAR="set by shell"
bash$ make echoit
FOOBAR=set by shell
bash$

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> From: Fergus Henderson <[email-masked]>
> To: Wayne Stewart <[email-masked]>
> Subject: Re: GNU make 'export'
> Date: Tuesday, March 25, 1997 9:47 PM
> 
> Wayne Stewart, you wrote:
> > 
> > Has anyone gotten GNU make's 'export' capability to successfully
> > set/override environment variables with make variable settings?
> > I'm using NT Workstation 4.0, GNU-WIN32 Beta 17.1.
> 
> One possible cause of the problem is that cygwin converts all
> environment variable names to uppercase.  If you're using lowercase
> or mixed case names, try using uppercase names.
> 

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