On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 00:03 +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
> Which still leaves me one curiosity: how come $(origin ...) reports
> 'environment' for "if-cpu" in the submakefile?

Whoops, sorry, I lied.

I checked the code again and if you explicit export a variable then make
will put it into the environment, regardless of the variable name.  It's
only variables where you don't specify one way or the other that the
naming convention check is done.

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