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Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 11:39:43 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
To: Vasoczki Ferenc <ferenc_vasoczki AT gallup DOT hu>
cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: RE: make doesn't inherit shell vars? (Was RE: wmmake problem)
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Please make sure your mailer respects the Reply-To: header -- I set it for
a reason.  Oh, and once again, <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR>.
	Igor

On Mon, 21 Jun 2004, Vasoczki Ferenc wrote:

> Now i should go, but tomorrow i will check...
> Sorry if it is offtopic.
> I used linux before, i just thought, this is a cygwin problem...
>
> Thank you again...
>
> Vaso
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Igor Pechtchanski
> Sent: Monday, June 21, 2004 5:28 PM
> To: Vasoczki Ferenc
> Cc: cygwin<at>cygwin<dot>com
> Subject: Re: make doesn't inherit shell vars? (Was RE: wmmake problem)
>
>
> On Mon, 21 Jun 2004, Vasoczki Ferenc wrote:
>
> > 1st of all, sorry.
> > But i think, a makefile syntax, and the cygwin environment variable is
> > not an SGT related problem
> > Forget the SGT.
> >
> > I made a variable in .bashrc :
> > mydir=/var/www
> > export mydir
> >
> > and in a makefile there is a reference:
> > include $(mydir)/myproject/something/a.mak
> >
> > echo $mydir
> > $ /var/www/
> >
> > and when i am compile, the system sad, cannot find
> > /myproject/something/a.mak because the system don't know the value of
> > the $mydir environment variable.
> >
> > so ?
> >
> > Vaso
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > [snip]
>
> Again, <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR>.
>
> Secondly, this is still not Cygwin-related -- it's a general bash
> situation.  Please read the bash man page, especially the INVOCATION
> section ('PAGER="less -isRrp ^INVOCATION" man bash').  Hint: note the
> difference between .bashrc and .bash_profile.
>
> FYI, the following works:
>
> $ pwd
> /tmp/maketest
> $ cat blah.mak
> include $(mydir)/maketest/bar.mk
> $ cat bar.mk
> all:;	echo "Got target"
> $ export mydir=/tmp
> $ make -f blah.mak
> echo "Got target"
> Got target
> $
> 	Igor

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