Re: Environment Variable to Customize .INCLUDE_DIRS

[Paul Smith]

On Wed, 2016-05-25 at 11:20 -0700, Afif Elghraoui wrote:
> Based on Paul Smith's comment in #47880 [1], there's a pretty simple 
> solution to this problem. Adding something like the following to 
> ~/.bashrc would do the trick:
> 
> 
> MAKELIBS="$HOME/.local/include /other/include"
> for path in $MAKELIBS
> do
>      MAKEFLAGS+="-I$path"
> done
> export MAKEFLAGS

That is not valid shell syntax, plus the quoting is not ideal.  You want
something like:

> for path in "$HOME/.local/include" /other/include
> do
>      MAKEFLAGS="$MAKEFLAGS -I$path"
> done
> export MAKEFLAGS

But yes, that's the basic idea.