Re: Environment Variables

[Paul D. Smith]

%% Jens Schweikhardt <address@hidden> writes:

  js> That said: if gmake produces as output lines of the form var=value,
  js> you can use the shell's eval command:

Note this is _VERY_ hard, because make will fairly often print other
random stuff, like directory information, etc.  Safer is the method I
mentioned, where the makefile writes the stuff to a file which the
parent sources; it's easier for the makefile to control the contents of
the file.  If you're concerned about security, the parent should
construct a secure area for the file to be written and give it to make
as a command line variable setting.

Jens is right; you basically don't want to do this if at all possible.

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