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

[Angus M. <am...@gu...>]

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.

cheers, Angus.

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

[<dan...@ya...>]

 --- Angus Mackay <am...@gu...> 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.
> 
> cheers, Angus.
> 
> 

It probably means that make can't find sh.exe.  'export' is not understood
by cmd.exe/command.com.  If make can't find sh.exe it refuses to honour
sh-specific commands.  BTW, cmd/command wont't recognise ':' as path
separator either.


Danny

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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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