On 2015-12-11, Bram Moolenaar <[email protected]> wrote:
> The name user preferences was not quite right, but you can see that
> these values will remain the same no matter what command you run.  As
> soon as you have something like:
>
>       setenv SOME_VAR=some_value
>       run command
>       setenv SOME_VAR=

env SOME_VAR=some_value command_name

Or, in most shells, just:

SOME_VAR=some_value command_name

> Then there is something wrong. In the case of SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH it's
> really passing a value to the command being run, and that is not right.

Every process has its own environment, normally inherited from
the parent. I suspect the reason they chose environment
variables was so that they can be passed to the top-level build
process and picked up by some subprocess within the build,
without the top-level process having to care about it or
explicitly pass it down the line.

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