On 15 August 2007 19:41, Paul Smith wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 18:02 +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
>
>> I think I just ran across a similar situation, but I'm not sure it's the
>> exact same. I define a function in an include file:
>
> This is a different problem.
>
>> export if-cpu
>
> This statement is a no-op. Shell variable names must match the RE
> [a-zA-Z_][a-zA-Z0-9_]*, so it's illegal for make to export a make
> variable "if-cpu", containing a dash which is an illegal character in a
> shell's variable name, into the environment. Make will ignore all
> variables that don't have a valid shell variable name when it exports.
Which still leaves me one curiosity: how come $(origin ...) reports
'environment' for "if-cpu" in the submakefile?
cheers,
DaveK
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