On Fri, 2016-09-23 at 05:52 -0700, David Boyce wrote: > I still think that's a good plan, except that now I find out it ends > up exporting anyway. I'm sure it's too late to change now but is > there a reason for this (unfortunate IMHO) behavior?
I can't tell you: this behavior has existed since the very first import of GNU make code into source code control, back in 1991. I couldn't find anything directly about this in the POSIX spec itself but in the Rationale it says: > Macros are not exported to the environment of commands to be run. > This was never the case in any historical make and would have serious > consequences. The environment is the same as the environment to make > except that MAKEFLAGS and macros defined on the make command line are > added. The last sentence seems to imply that POSIX requires this behavior but as I say, I can't find a justification for this in the text. _______________________________________________ Bug-make mailing list Bug-make@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make
