Re: [Axiom-developer] ENV

[Humberto Ortiz Zuazaga]

Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
> Nobody claims that is illegal.  We are talking of a *specific variable*
> here, that happens to have a *specific meaning* for shells.

It may help to state the *specific meaning* of ENV in POSIX shells. I 
looked at the man page for bash and it says:

 "When invoked as an interactive shell with the name sh, bash looks for 
the variable ENV, expands its value  if  it  is defined,  and uses the 
expanded value as the name of a file to read and execute."

So I can imagine a call to "$ENV sh something" in a makefile to explode. 
What actually happened?

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Humberto Ortiz-Zuazaga
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UPR Bioinformatics Resource Center
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