Re: export not working...

[Yakov Lerner]

Christopher J Bottaro wrote:
> i'm trying to do a recursive make, but the variables i export are not being 
> seen by the sub makes.
>
> SUBDIRS = blah...
>
> $(SUBDIRS):
>         @if [ $(ARCH) = LINUX ]; then \
>                 export MYVAR = DEBUG; \
>         fi
>         cd $@ && $(MAKE)
>
> when the sub make runs, MYVAR is not defined.  what am i doing wrong?

You need to rewrite it so that export is within same shell command
as $(MAKE). Then it will work:

$(SUBDIRS):
        @if [ $(ARCH) = LINUX ]; then \
                export MYVAR=DEBUG; \
        fi; \
        cd $@ && $(MAKE)

Jacob