Re: Regarding running shell script from Makefile

[Dave Hylands]

HI Eli,

> > Some windows machine seem to have Path in their environment and others
> > seem to have PATH. make treats them as different variables (or at
> > least there are sets of compile time options that cause this to
> > happen).
> >
> > I think that when both PATH and Path exist in the environment, then
> > windows just winds up using the first one it encounters.
>
> When did you last see such problems?  I see in Make 3.81 code that
> explicitly synchronizes Path and PATH, so they both have the same
> value.  Is it possible that your experience dates back to ports of old
> versions of Make?  If not, can you provide a short self-contained
> example that can be used to reproduce the problem?

It's entirely possible that it was in 3.79 since we've been using that
version for quite a while, and some of our build environments are
still using it (once we release a version, maintenance version
generally don't get tool updates since the updates could invalidate
all of the testing).

Anyways, I think it was over a year ago I saw the problem, and of
course since we addressed it, I wouldn't have noticed that it was
fixed in a newer version of make.

Thanks for pointing out that it appears to be fixed. If I can make the
problem occur again with the latest version of make I'll bring it up
again.

> TIA


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