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GNU Make 3.05 environment problem

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From: Karl Fox
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 1988 15:07
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GNU Make version 3.05 can put seemingly bogus values for string variables
into the environment when running programs.  It can be worked around by putting
them explicitly into the environment (for example, VPATH=$(VPATH)), but it
worked properly before.  /bin/make is GNU make 3.05; /bin/OLDgmake is GNU make
from mid July (sorry, I don't know the version).

| Script started on Wed Sep 21 10:49:06 1988
| mstar % cat test.mk
| TMP	=	/tmp
| X	=	x $(TMP) x
| VPATH	=	$(TMP):/usr/tmp
| 
| all:
| 	env | egrep -i "tmp|vpath"
| mstar % make -f test.mk
| env | egrep -i "tmp|vpath"
| TMP=/tmp
| VPATH=$(TMP):/usr/tmp
| X=x $(TMP) x
| mstar % OLDgmake -f test.mk
| env | egrep -i "tmp|vpath"
| TMP=/tmp
| VPATH=/tmp:/usr/tmp
| X=x /tmp x
| mstar % ^D
| script done on Wed Sep 21 10:53:05 1988
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Karl Fox, Morning Star Technologies ...!{att,osu-cis,pyramid}!mstar!karl
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From: karl@mstar.UUCP (Karl Fox)
Newsgroups: gnu.utils.bug
Subject: GNU Make 3.05 environment problem
Message-ID: <929@mstar.UUCP>
Date: 21 Sep 88 15:07:19 GMT
Distribution: gnu
Organization: Morning Star Technologies Inc, Columbus, OH
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