On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 4:51 PM, Paul Smith
<address@hidden> wrote:
In this example you actually don't even need to export QA_STEP, since
only the shell is expanding it. But, if you do really need to export it
then please do it portably:
test:
address@hidden; export QA_STEP; <do-something>
Since we're into pet peeves, and since as you note make uses /bin/sh, why not push
test:
address@hidden <do-something>
as the recommended "elegant" option? It's worked on every /bin/sh ever made and it's the way one-shot exporting was originally designed to work.
DSB