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RE: ecosconfig is ignoring environment variableECOS_REPOSITORY!
- From: "Andrew Voelkel" <andy at bushtaxi dot com>
- To: "'Gary Thomas'" <gary at mlbassoc dot com>
- Cc: "'eCos Discussion'" <ecos-discuss at ecos dot sourceware dot org>
- Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 21:16:30 -0700
- Subject: RE: [ECOS] ecosconfig is ignoring environment variableECOS_REPOSITORY!
>> Imagine the silliness of putting a line in my .bashrc file which reads:
>>
>> Alias ecosconfig='/path-to-actual-ecosconfig-executable
>> --srcdir=$ECOS_REPOSITORY'
>>
>> But that is exactly what I have to do to get it to work as advertised.
>
>export ECOS_REPOSITORY=<path>
>Run this directly, or put it in your .bashrc file
One of the wonderful things about learning a completely new toolset is
getting to feel like a complete idiot when you forget things that should be
"obvious". I had completely forgotten about the need to export variables to
the "environment".
>Exactly what did you try that did not work?
ECOS_REPOSITORY=<path>
Thanks, Gary!
- Andy
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