Subject: Re: Bug#613046: debian-policy: please update example in 4.9.1 (debian/rules and DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS)

From: Russ Allbery <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:18:07 -0800

Raphael Hertzog <[email-masked]> writes:

> No because $(shell ...) only gets environment variable that were
> existing at the time make has been invoked. Variables exported by the
> makefile itself are not forwarded. :-(

Ah, indeed.  I didn't realize that.

Using `` instead of $(shell) would of course work, but you have to be
careful about quoting.

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Russ Allbery ([email-masked])               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>