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From: csg@pyramid.pyramid.com (Carl S. Gutekunst)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.pyramid
Subject: Re: make(1) does not see environment variables
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Date: 2 Oct 90 16:31:43 GMT
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Reply-To: csg@pyramid.pyramid.com (Carl S. Gutekunst)
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>On a Pyramid (5.0d 4.3BSD), makefiles can't seem to see env varaibles:

True. 4.3BSD make doesn't do that.

You can use the att (SVR3) make, which does read its variables from the envi-
ronment. (Of course, if you just use 'att make', your program will also be
compiled in the att universe.) The SVR3 make also has the -e option, which
causes variables from the environment to override the first assignment of
those variables in the makefile. 

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