Re: export not working...

[Noel Yap]

Yakov Lerner wrote:
> 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)

I think having the if logic performed by make makes the shell output easier to 
read (eg when doing "make -n"):

$(SUBDIRS):
        @$(if $(filter LINUX,$(ARCH)),export MYVAR=DEBUG;) \
        cd $@ && $(MAKE)

Noel
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