[bug #58420] PATH changes are not applied in $(shell) function

[Martin Dorey]

Follow-up Comment #2, bug #58420 (project make):

$(shell) commands in a recipe... well, we've all seen it done. 
 But, hang on, PATH doesn't behave specially for me:


martind@sirius:~/tmp/make-58420$ cat Makefile 
NOT_PATH := /nonexistent:$(NOT_PATH)
$(shell echo during parsing NOT_PATH=$(NOT_PATH) 1>&2)

default:; @echo "make variable NOT_PATH=$(NOT_PATH)"; echo "in target
commands, NOT_PATH=$$NOT_PATH"; echo "in \$$(shell commands), NOT_PATH=$(shell
echo "$$NOT_PATH")"
martind@sirius:~/tmp/make-58420$ NOT_PATH=export-me make
during parsing NOT_PATH=/nonexistent:export-me
make variable NOT_PATH=/nonexistent:export-me
in target commands, NOT_PATH=/nonexistent:export-me
in $(shell commands), NOT_PATH=export-me
martind@sirius:~/tmp/make-58420$ 


(I put the recipe on one line because tabs often don't come out in the mail.)

Seeing:

Component Version:      4.3

I worried that it might be due to the new spawning code, but the results
above, which I think are consistent with the reporter's, were from make-4.1. 
I get the same from 4.0 and even 3.81.

After puzzling over the code, I belatedly realized that my "during parsing"
line above isn't doing the same as the $(shell) in the recipe.  The former is
passing the Make variable's value to $(shell), where the latter is getting it
out of the environment given to $(shell).  The code-comment here appears
likely to pertain:

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/make.git/tree/src/function.c#n1727

... which points us at:

https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitem&item_id=10593

I think this is a duplicate.

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