Shell function and LD_LIBRARY_PATH

[Mohammad Akhlaghi]

Dear GNU Make developers,

I recently installed the newly released Bash 5.0 (accompanied by a new 
libreadline library) in a user-specific directory. The host operating 
system (on a server, where I don't have root access) uses an older 
version of Bash.

Through Make's `SHELL' variable, I have asked Make to use the updated 
version of Bash. In Make, I have also exported `LD_LIBRARY_PATH', so my 
Bash can find the proper version of libreadline to link with. This 
exportation of LD_LIBRARY_PATH is done very early in the Makefile and is 
set with `:=':

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH := /home/user/.local/lib

This works nicely for all the shell calls within recipes. However, when 
I use the $(shell ...) function, I get a linking error (shown below) by 
my new Bash for every use of the $(shell ...) function.

/home/user/.local/bin/bash: error while loading shared libraries: 
libreadline.so.8: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Reverting back to the system's Bash, I tried $(shell printenv) as well 
as a call to `printenv' in a recipe. I noticed that while the other 
important environment variables like `PATH', `LDFLAGS' and etc are in 
both, LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not present in value of $(shell printenv).

Since I couldn't find any mention of this in in the manual, I wanted to 
see if this removal of LD_LIBRARY_PATH from the $(shell) function is 
intentional or if its a bug?

I am using Make 4.2.90 (recently bootstrapped 
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/make.git ).

Cheers,
Mohammad