RE: Regarding running shell script from Makefile

[Dave Korn]

On 14 May 2007 13:54, Paul Smith wrote:

> On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 13:20 +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
>> On 14 May 2007 12:30, Paul Smith wrote:
>> 
>>> On Mon, 14 May 2007 11:52:59 +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
>>>> export PATH:=/myhome/tools/bin:$PATH
>>> 
>>> This is not correct.  You need to use the make variable $(PATH), not the
>>> shell variable $PATH, since you're in a makefile:
>>> 
>>> export PATH := /myhome/tools/bin:$(PATH)
> 
>> Well, it does work
> 
> No it doesn't.
> 
>> export PATH:=${PATH}:/tmp
> 
> Yes, that will work fine.  But that's not the example you gave in your
> email.
> 
>>   Am I missing something?
> 
> Check the example you gave, quoted above :)

  Ach!  Can't see what I wrote for knowing what I thought I wrote!  Heh, I
should have cut and pasted it from my test instead of typing it over again
<smackwrist> there, that'll teach me not to do it again...

    cheers,
      DaveK
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