Environment setting for make
Gary W. Swearingen
garys at opusnet.com
Sat Sep 17 07:16:31 PDT 2005
Joel Hatton <freebsd-questions at 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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