On Mon, 20 Apr 2015, Stephen M. Webb wrote: > On 15-04-20 07:27 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > also, of course, at any point, i can set and add env variables from > > within the makefile with > > > > VAR = value > > export VAR > > Just to clarify, you're setting Make variables there, not shell > environment variables. You can override Make variables by using a > shell variable or specifying it on the command line, but they're not > entirely the same thing. you're right, bad terminology on my part. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ========================================================================