Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 07:17:56 -0700 From: garys@opusnet.com (Gary W. Swearingen) To: Joel Hatton <freebsd-questions@auscert.org.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Environment setting for make Message-ID: <8j4q8jdbhn.q8j@mail.opusnet.com> In-Reply-To: <200509170918.j8H9IsQ7056622@app.auscert.org.au> (Joel Hatton's message of "Sat, 17 Sep 2005 19:18:54 %2B1000") References: <200509170918.j8H9IsQ7056622@app.auscert.org.au>
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Joel Hatton <freebsd-questions@auscert.org.au> writes: > # E.g. use `env MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX=/somewhere/obj make' > > However, and at this risk of exposing my inexperience and just plain old > sounding foolish, how does this method of setting MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX differ > from: > > setenv MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX /somewhere/obj It's effect is only seen by "make", instead of all subsequent commands. It also works in a Bourne shell where the Bourne equivalent of the second method is: MAKEOBJDIRPREFIXj=/somewhere/obj make > Also, in the example above, is the backquote '`' intended, or is that for > compatibility for something like tex? It's a (misguided, IMO) attempt at having left and right quotes. In some fonts, it's almost invisible.
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