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Re: Handling of ENV options
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: Handling of ENV options |
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Mon, 21 Mar 2011 14:48:15 -0700 |
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On 03/21/2011 03:09 AM, Kalev Soikonen wrote:
> Apparently, gmake exports the variables that were exported in the first place,
> thus gzip is invoked with "GZIP=/bin/gzip" in its env.
That's pretty unfortunate. Perhaps gzip should
ignore the GZIP environment variable unless it
is parsable as a series of options? gzip could
issue a warning in that case, but proceed as if
GZIP were unset.