Bug#613046: debian-policy: please update example in 4.9.1 (debian/rules and DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS)
Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> 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 (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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