Oded Arbel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi list.
>
> not really alinux question, but if you please -
> I'm writing a Makefile to build some project, and it needs to get some data
> from environment variables. specificly some variables that are initialized
> from a profile.d bash file. now I know that I can access environment
> variables from make using ${NAME}, but the problem is that sometimes the
> Makefile is run with no environment set - specificly, when being invoked as a
> post-commit script in CVS when called by a windows CVS client. is it possible
> to somehow 'source' a specified bash file to export its environment into a
> Makefile from withing the make process ?
> Everything I tried so far failed (which mostly involved treating a Makefile as
> a glorified bash script - which apparently it isn't).
What's wrong with
$ . <profile> && make -e
?
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