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Re: append to/from command line variable


From: Paul D. Smith
Subject: Re: append to/from command line variable
Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2005 09:51:39 -0500

%% "Martin d'Anjou" <address@hidden> writes:

  md> I understand! The whole point is that make needs to pass env
  md> variables from the invoking shell to its sub-shells. So it creates
  md> a tunnel for the env variables and it can modify the values along
  md> the way.

Yes.

  md> Thanks a lot Paul!

Cheers!

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