[comp.sys.apollo] referencing environment variables within makefiles

nielson@dhw68k.cts.com (Mike Nielson) (03/16/89)

I have recently discovered that the "make" utility on Apollo systems does not
seem to allow environment variables to be referenced within a makefile. 
For example, on a typical unix system a user can pass C compiler options to
make via the predefined CFLAGS make variable by executing the shell command 
"setenv CFLAGS options" prior to invoking make.  I have used this feature
on several other unix machines (Sun, HP, SGI, and others) but it does not
work on Apollo.  I have tried it on O.S. levels 9.7 and 10.1 using both
the sys5 and bsd environments.

Can anyone offer any suggestions?


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