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Re: exported vs command line variables


From: Edward Welbourne
Subject: Re: exported vs command line variables
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2016 14:14:44 +0000

On Fri, 2016-09-23 at 13:24 +0000, Edward Welbourne wrote:
>> This does seem like an unsound choice, for the reasons David gave,
Paul Smith replied:
> Perhaps but as discussed, it's been that way in GNU make (and other
> versions of make) forever and is required by the POSIX standard.  So
> we'll just have to live with it.

Indeed; some unsound choices get tenure,

     Eddy.


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