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- From: faith@cs.unc.edu (Rik Faith)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: GNU make-3.63 cola announcement
- Date: 26 Jan 1993 12:48:14 GMT
- Organization: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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- References: <1993Jan26.034027.29246@afterlife.ncsc.mil>
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- In article <1993Jan26.034027.29246@afterlife.ncsc.mil>, jepstei@afterlife.ncsc.mil (John Epstein) writes:
- |>
- |> I would like to correct mis-information in the cola announcement
- |> about GNU make-3.63.
- |>
- |> According to Gnu.announcement for GNU make-3.63,
- |> .EXPORT_ALL_VARIABLES:
- |> will give you the old behavior [of make-3.62].
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- Correct. That is what the manual says.
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- However, because of a bug in 3.63 and a change in how variables are
- expanded before being placed in the environment, the manual is *WRONG*.
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- I have a new patch from FSF to correct this problem, and I will be building
- new binaries and placing the new patch in the *.Notes file soon.
-
- |>
- |> I haven't tried this yet myself as downloaded manual first.
- |>
- |> John
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- Sometimes posting information based on documentation alone is not very
- helpful.
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- Rik Faith: faith@cs.unc.edu
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