URL: <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?63638>
Summary: the PATH environment variable seems to get modified when a makefile is remade Project: make Submitter: None Submitted: Mon 09 Jan 2023 10:01:07 PM UTC Severity: 3 - Normal Item Group: Bug Status: None Privacy: Public Assigned to: None Open/Closed: Open Discussion Lock: Any Component Version: 4.4 Operating System: MS Windows Fixed Release: None Triage Status: None _______________________________________________________ Follow-up Comments: ------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon 09 Jan 2023 10:01:07 PM UTC By: Anonymous Consider the following minimal example: # --- # show the content of the environment variable PATH $(info PATH = $(shell echo %PATH%)) # the first time the makefile is made, we delete the (empty) file we're including below. # this ensures that its rule gets executed and that the makefile gets remade. ifeq ($(MAKE_RESTARTS),) $(shell del missing_at_first.mk) endif # the first time the makefile is made, this file doesn't exist, but we have a rule to create it, so we are going to get remade include missing_at_first.mk # rule to create an empty file missing_at_first.mk: @type nul > missing_at_first.mk # --- with make 4.4-2, i get the following result: PATH = C:\msys64-make-4.4-2\mingw64\bin PATH = C;\msys64-make-4.4-2\mingw64\bin please notice how the first colon turned to a semicolon on the second pass. with make 4.3, i get the expected result: PATH = C:\msys64-make-4.4-2\mingw64\bin PATH = C:\msys64-make-4.4-2\mingw64\bin _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?63638> _______________________________________________ Message sent via Savannah https://savannah.gnu.org/