Re: make bootstrap fails.

[Kim F. Storm]

Luc Teirlinck <address@hidden> writes:

> Or do some versions of make actually reinitialize environment
> variables directly from the shell environment that invoked make for
> sub-make's if not exported?

I don't know -- that's why I asked...

> 
> Anyway, it would seem like the `export' can not do any harm, even
> though I do not immediately understand how it could do some good.
> (But I know very little about Makefiles).

Unless there are version of make which doesn't understand "export".

If it works in your setup without export, I suggest we don't use it.

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