Re: Testing rule success

[Paul Smith]

On Mon, 2007-07-30 at 10:47 -0500, David A. Greene wrote:
> > However with this you can't pass variable assignments up to make,
> > since changes in a child's environment have no effect in the parent.
> 
> Right, and this is exactly one of the things I want to do.  Is this
> even possible?

Sure; what you did (using $(eval VAR = value) in a command script works
as you'd expect: that variable is set when the command script is
expanded.  Note that older versions of GNU make might not support eval
or support it entirely correctly.

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