<quote who="[EMAIL PROTECTED]">
> Hi all;
>
> For POSIX compatibility the next version of GNU make doesn't export any
next meaning 3.81 or some newer version?
> value of SHELL that you set in your makefile. Instead, the value that
> was taken from the environment when make starts is passed on in the
> environment of the sub-shell. Note this DOES NOT impact the way in
> which make chooses which shell to invoke commands in: that still uses
> the value set in the makefile or inherited from the environment.
>
> This only impacts the value of the SHELL environment variable which is
> passed in the environment to sub-commands.
>
> If you want the make variable value to be exported you can export it
> explicitly with "export SHELL" then the make value will be passed
> through the environment.
>
>
> Eli doesn't think this new behavior is appropriate for the DOS port; he
> would like the old behavior back. Is the same true for the various
> Windows ports? Does this change break things there?
>
I don't really know. For Cygwin and MSYS it wouldn't matter since they
emulate POSIX. DOS and Win32 aren't POSIX compatible, so it might matter,
but I can't say for sure. Perhaps enabling the current behavior with
--enable-shell-autoexport with the default disabled?
Earnie
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