Re: Handling of SHELL by GNU make: not POSIX compliant

[David Boyce]

At 12:41 PM 10/7/2002 -0400, David Boyce wrote:
> which codifies the hidden assumption that in GNU make SHELL, unlike any 
> other make variable ... will be automatically exported.

Rereading my msg I realize the above is muddy. In fact, any modification of 
a variable which was inherited from the environment automatically "exports" 
the new value, so in that way SHELL is not treated specially. The problem 
is that according to POSIX it should be.

-David Boyce