RE: unable to use $ORIGIN in rpath

[Dave Korn]

On 15 August 2007 19:41, Paul Smith wrote:

> On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 18:02 +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
> 
>> I think I just ran across a similar situation, but I'm not sure it's the
>> exact same.  I define a function in an include file:
> 
> This is a different problem.
> 
>> export if-cpu
> 
> This statement is a no-op.  Shell variable names must match the RE
> [a-zA-Z_][a-zA-Z0-9_]*, so it's illegal for make to export a make
> variable "if-cpu", containing a dash which is an illegal character in a
> shell's variable name, into the environment.  Make will ignore all
> variables that don't have a valid shell variable name when it exports.

  Which still leaves me one curiosity: how come $(origin ...) reports
'environment' for "if-cpu" in the submakefile?

    cheers,
      DaveK
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