Subject: Re: [SM-Commit] GIT changes to master grimoire by Ismael Luceno (6ce57b97a3ce68402e781903051505b83725cd2c)
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 00:09:14 -0300
El Tue, 11 Mar 2008 19:10:33 +0100
Jaka Kranjc <smgl AT lynxlynx.info> escribió:
> Those vars don't need to be persistent. Usually they are exported so
> child processes can get them too, but this is sometimes not needed.
> Also you can pass some vars directly (bla=2143 huhu=123 ./autogen).
>
> The note about avoiding "export" in the wiki page is meant more like
> a reminder that exported variables aren't guaranteed to be persistent
> over spell files. Exporting in BUILD should be harmless to other
> processes too, since it is run in a double subshell, but other spell
> files don't have this luxury.
> So it really should be avoided. But you can't remove places where the
> use is legitimately needed.
>