RE: Regarding running shell script from Makefile

[Paul Smith]

On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 13:20 +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
> On 14 May 2007 12:30, Paul Smith wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 14 May 2007 11:52:59 +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
> >> export PATH:=/myhome/tools/bin:$PATH
> > 
> > This is not correct.  You need to use the make variable $(PATH), not the
> > shell variable $PATH, since you're in a makefile:
> > 
> > export PATH := /myhome/tools/bin:$(PATH)

> Well, it does work

No it doesn't.

> export PATH:=${PATH}:/tmp

Yes, that will work fine.  But that's not the example you gave in your
email.

>   Am I missing something?

Check the example you gave, quoted above :)

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