From: elric AT wheel DOT dcn DOT davis DOT ca DOT us (Jeffrey Taylor)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: BASH startup
Date: 10 Jan 1997 17:33:03 GMT
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John M. Aldrich (fighteer AT cs DOT com) wrote:
: Weiqi Gao wrote:
: > 
: > Yes.  The current shell gets the variable whether you export or not.
: > Subshells gets the variable only after you export it.  Is that how it works
: > in ksh?
: 
: In ksh, any variables that are not exported only exist in the context of
: the current shell, and are not retained by the parent when that shell
: exits.  So, if you write a script, but don't export your variables, they
: will only exist in the context of that script.
: 

This was my problem, by exporting the variables I needed for make and gcc,
it all wroks.  Thanks to everyone for their help.

Jeff T