Thanks David I will take it from here, I have found a couple of work-arounds to the below.
Cheers, mani On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 2:16 PM, David Holmes <david.hol...@oracle.com>wrote: > On 16/02/2013 12:09 AM, Mani Sarkar wrote: > >> I have written a bash script which looks for gamma, but gamma can be >> created using different make parameters resulting in 'gamma' being >> created in a nested folders (with various name combinations). I have >> figured a way to locate gamma but it would be best to be able use the >> data available to configure. >> > > configure doesn't know where gamma will be. hotspot makefile make that > decision. > > > With regards to your comment on make, is it not possible to write these >> values once they are available (post build) into environment variables - >> or as you saying we cannot write them into environment variables at all. >> > > It is not the job of a Makefile to export environment variables back to > the parent process. > > But you are free to modify the makefiles to expose this value of GAMMA for > your own needs. > > David > > Cheers, >> mani >> >> On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 1:44 PM, David Holmes <david.hol...@oracle.com >> <mailto:david.holmes@oracle.**com <david.hol...@oracle.com>>> wrote: >> >> On 15/02/2013 9:42 PM, Mani Sarkar wrote: >> >> Thanks David, I appreciate your help so far. I'm devising a way >> around >> the below you mentioned. >> >> Would it be possible in future releases of your specs / scripts >> to echo >> these values (and other useful ones) out into the OS as >> environment >> variables, it would defo help with utilities or scripts running >> around >> the OpenJDK program - similar to the one I'm working on atm. >> >> >> I'm not sure what you are suggesting. configure generates makefiles >> with make variables. It doesn't set environment variables - nor is >> there a way to do so. Many of the variables do not have a value >> until make is run during an actual build. So I really don't know >> what you are asking for. >> >> David >> >> Cheers, >> mani >> >> >> -- >> *Twitter:* @theNeomatrix369 >> *Blog:* >> http://neomatrix369.wordpress.**com<http://neomatrix369.wordpress.com> >> *JUG activity:* LJC Advocate >> *Meet-a-Project:* >> https://github.com/**MutabilityDetector<https://github.com/MutabilityDetector> >> *Come to Devoxx UK 2013:* >> http://www.devoxx.com/display/**UK13/Home<http://www.devoxx.com/display/UK13/Home> >> */Don't chase success, rather aim for "Excellence", and success will >> come chasing after you!/* >> > -- *Twitter:* @theNeomatrix369 *Blog:* http://neomatrix369.wordpress.com *JUG activity:* LJC Advocate *Meet-a-Project:* https://github.com/MutabilityDetector *Come to Devoxx UK 2013:* http://www.devoxx.com/display/UK13/Home *Don't chase success, rather aim for "Excellence", and success will come chasing after you!*
