Re: shell functions from env not available in make?

[gk]

At 12:39 AM 10/25/2002 -0400, Paul D. Smith wrote:
> %% gk <address@hidden> writes:
>
>   g> I have sourced a function 'xmsubdirs' into my current shell and was
>   g> expecting it to be available from a makefile rule but it is not.
>
> This is a shell question, not a GNU make question.  If you do this:
>
>   $ echo 'all:;@env' | make -f-
>
> you'll see that make _does_ export the function variable to the
> processes it invokes, just as it would any other environment variable.

I am not seeing any function variables output from that or from env command 
in the shell.
the 'set' command outputs the functions.



> If they don't show up in the subshell it means that the shell is not
> processing them.  Perhaps bash ignores functions unless it's invoked as
> an interactive shell.

My shell is interactive.
Running my function in a subshell from the terminal works fine:
address@hidden project]$ (xmsubdirs)
subdir1 subdir2



> You'll have to ask on the bash help/bug lists.


There is no bash help list that I could find.
The bash homepage on savannah lists no mailing lists.
Sorry to bother you if it has nothing to do with bash. I'll try 
comp.unix.shell.
- Greg Keraunen