Re: [Mingw-users] make not honoring "export" directive

[Earnie B. <ear...@ya...>]

Angus Mackay wrote:
> 
> it seems that the MinGW version of gnu make doesn't honor the "export"
> directive, is there any reason for this?
> 
> == example ==
> export PATH := /thisisatest:$(PATH)
> all :
>         echo $$PATH
> == ~example ==
> 
> it isn't just PATH either, but that is the one I care about.
> 

Does the variable named PATH exist or is it named Path?

Are you using MSYS?  If so what happens if you use gmake instead of
make?

Earnie.

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