* Eric Blake-1 wrote on Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 05:54:18PM CET: > > Does Autotest (now that it uses shell functions) still cater to shells > > that need to re-export variables after changing them? Then > > at_debug_args should contain the export statements, too. > > The way I read the autoconf manual, you are required to export > any variable that you modify and want child processes to see > (in case the variable began life inherited into the current environment); > and this is still valid on existing systems (think Solaris /bin/sh). > But I see nothing that places an order on the export.
Indeed, the manual doesn't require this, and Solaris 6 sh doesn't need it, either. Thanks for explaining the manual to me! :-) Cheers, Ralf
