On 01-09-10 16:32:48 CEST, Michael Bell wrote:
> Robert Joop wrote:
> >
> > what's the purpose of the
> >
> > export prefix exec_prefix
> > export BINDIR DATADIR INFODIR LIBDIR MANDIR SBINDIR
> > export MAKE TAR INSTALL INSTALL_OPT MKDIR CHMOD CHOWN ECHO SED CAT
> > export MV CP RM
> > export SHELL PERL OPENSSL
> > export VER C_DIR SCP_DIR
> >
> > section in the top level makefile (of both 0.8 and 0.9)?
> > are those environment variables used anywhere?
> >
> > i intend to throw this and lots of other unnecessary stuff out in order
> > to make the makefiles shorter, more readable and easier to understand.
>
> The makefiles use commands via "$(ECHO) blabla" but perhaps the export
> is unnecessary.
there's an
ECHO=@ECHO@
in every Makefile.in, so to me its looks like the exports are only
obfuscating things.
speaking of all the variable settings in every Makefile.in, i think i'll
take them out and put them in a Makefile.global-vars.in and include that
from all the others.
rj
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