Environment Variable Not passed to Make

[James W. McKelvey]

I notice that the environment variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not passed to 
make like all the other variables. The value is always null!

This is very weird, since I can't find any reference to it in the make 
code. There is no reference in the info or man pages to any special 
treatment.

I see that when bash calls another program or script, it is passed 
down, so it isn't anything bash is doing.

Any explanation for this behavior?

GNU Make version 3.79.1

Linux alpha1 2.4.9-31 #1 Tue Feb 26 06:07:30 EST 2002 alpha unknown

Red Hat 7.1

Thanx,

    Jim McKelvey

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And the lie of Authority whose buildings grope the sky
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