Re: [chat] portable scripting

[Andre Pang <ozone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday, January 27, 2003, at 07:29  PM, Pete Ryland wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 09:32:10PM +1100, Ken Foskey wrote:
> > I want to write a portable script that must pass environment variables
> > to a configure script.  If I use #!/bin/sh will "export 
> > CC=/path/to/CC"
> > always work?  This does not work with tcsh and there is a slight
> > possibility that this is the only shell installed and symlinked to sh.
>
> configure scripts can be passed CC via the command line:
>
> ./configure CC=/path/to/cc

The portable way to do it is:

    CC=/path/to/cc
    export CC

bash's "export CC=..." is just shorthand for "CC=...; export CC".


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