Subject: Re: make: adding .export
To: Simon Gerraty <sjg@juniper.net>
From: Luke Mewburn <lukem@NetBSD.org>
List: tech-toolchain
Date: 10/10/2007 11:45:12
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On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 11:15:21AM -0700, Simon Gerraty wrote:
| The patch below, adds a .export facility which is pretty analagous to
| gmake's. It is often handy to set macros for tools like PERL, and
| export them to all children.
|=20
| Actual export of vars that have '$' in their values is delayed until
| we fork a child, while a bit expensive in compat mode, this ensures
| accurate results and minimizes the ability of setenv to leak memory in
| the parent.
Seems like a reasonable idea to me.
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