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From: Manni Heumann <manni DOT heumann AT gmx DOT de>
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Subject: make, environment variables, and export
Date: 2 Dec 2003 15:24:36 GMT
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Hi!

I'm trying to make a certain makefile run on all sorts of systems. 
Currently 
my problem is "export". According to the make info files and to googled 
information, make should be able to set an environment variable with 
export 
and then run another program, even when it is run under a dos/windows 
shell 
(right?). But on W2k (in a dos box) all I get is a "Command or file not 
found" error.

Here's an example:

$(TARGET):
    	export TEST=foo; perl somescript.pl

before the script runs, I get the error message and the script doesn't 
see 
TEST.

I'm using make 3.79.1 on W2k SP4.

Anyone know what I'm doing wrong?


Manni