Re: [Axiom-developer] ENV

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

root <address@hidden> writes:

| > > The use of ENV in the Makefiles conflicts with established practice
| > > with shells (that are POSIXilly correct).  
| > 
| > And we don't export ENV to submakes, so I don't know if it's doing anything.
| 
| The name ENV predates POSIX.

irrelevant.

| Since we control everything about the build
| I don't think it matters but there would be no harm in changing it everywhere.

It matters that we do avoid using it. Otherwise, we're setting a
timebomb and it will blow (and it did for me -- that is how it came to
my attention).

-- Gaby