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Re: [bug #60841] misleading statement in the manual
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Dmitry Goncharov |
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Re: [bug #60841] misleading statement in the manual |
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Tue, 29 Jun 2021 10:39:46 -0400 |
On Mon, Jun 28, 2021 at 10:23 AM Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> wrote:
> > "When make runs a recipe, variables defined in the makefile are placed into
> > the environment of each shell."
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> Please also read the rest of the paragraph.
This statement should say "variables defined in the makefile can be
placed..." to match the reality and the rest of the paragraph.
In fact, the prior version used to say
"variables defined in the outer invocation can be passed to inner
invocations through the environment...".
regards, Dmitry