try

MAKE_ENV+=	ICUROOT="${LOCALBASE}"


what you tried causes ICUROOT to get set in a shell which is then
immediately ended.

-Dan

On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote:

> I'm trying to make a package for a software that needs to have an
> environement variable set while compiling. How do I do that? If I just
> do
> 
> pre-build:
>         export ICUROOT=${LOCALBASE} 
> 
> in the Makefile, it won't work.
> 
> -- 
> Emmanuel Dreyfus
> p99dreyf@criens.u-psud.fr
>