configure --with-as broken

[Jody Goldberg]

On Fri, Oct 30, 1998 at 11:26:29AM +0000, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> 
> But gcc/configure is not run by a sub-make, is it?  And if it is not,
> this is a non-issue, because make only passes the environment down to
> sub-makes, see:
> 
> TEST = foo

export TEST

> all: test test2 test3 test4
> test:
> 	echo $$TEST
> test2:
> 	$(MAKE) test
> script:
> 	echo "#! /bin/sh" > $@
> 	echo 'echo $$TEST' >> $@
> 	chmod +x script
> 	cat script
> test3: script
> 	./script
> test4:
> 	$(MAKE) test3
> 
> Running this makefile with GNU make 3.76.1 and 3.77 would only print
> blank lines whenever `foo' should be printed according to your
> suggestion.  But then, other make programs, or older versions of GNU
> make, may be broken with this respect.  Does anyone know of any make
> program for which `make | grep foo' succeeds, i.e., prints at least
> one line?

Adding 'export TEST' will cause the make variable to be exported into the
environment and hence available to sub makes and child processes.


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