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Re: Environment Variables


From: Paul D. Smith
Subject: Re: Environment Variables
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 14:16:12 -0400

%% "Bhatt, Milan C" <address@hidden> writes:

  bmc> I know that this may be a shot in the dark, but is there any way
  bmc> to set environmental variables through GMAKE and have the new
  bmc> value of the environmental changed within the shell even after
  bmc> GMAKE has exited?

No.

This has nothing to do with make; no UNIX process can ever change the
environment of its parent (unless they have some agreed-upon protocol,
like the child writes some new variable settings to a temporary file and
the parent sources the contents of that file after running the child, or
similar schemes).

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