Re: testsuite -C dir

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Eric Blake-1 wrote on Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 05:54:18PM CET:
> > Does Autotest (now that it uses shell functions) still cater to shells
> > that need to re-export variables after changing them?  Then
> > at_debug_args should contain the export statements, too.
> 
> The way I read the autoconf manual, you are required to export
> any variable that you modify and want child processes to see
> (in case the variable began life inherited into the current environment);
> and this is still valid on existing systems (think Solaris /bin/sh).
> But I see nothing that places an order on the export.

Indeed, the manual doesn't require this, and Solaris 6 sh doesn't need
it, either.  Thanks for explaining the manual to me!  :-)

Cheers,
Ralf