Re: [Chicken-hackers] <PATCH> Make the test suite work when PROGRAM_PREFIX and PROGRAM_SUFFIX are defined

[Evan Hanson]

On 2018-05-23 16:42, Kooda wrote:
> On Sun, 20 May 2018 15:51:16 +1200 Evan Hanson <address@hidden> wrote:
> > On 2018-05-02 16:29, Kooda wrote:
> > > +export PROGRAM_PREFIX
> > > +export PROGRAM_SUFFIX  
> > 
> > Are the exports necessary? I think the only way users can provide
> > non-default values is via make flags, in which case they're implicitly
> > part of the "check" target's environment (and in the other case it's
> > not necessary to export them).
> 
> I export them to use them as environment variables in the runtests
> scripts and some tests, so they need to be exported.

I understand, but as I said, when options are provided as make flags (as
these two values must be) then they're already exported, so these two
statements are unnecessary.

Evan