Thanks, I wasn't aware of gnu-make forum. I will post it there. Please delete this thread from this forum. John (Eljay) Love-Jensen wrote: > > Hi mahmoodn, > > You question is off topic for this forum. > > This is a GCC forum. > > Your question is a Make question. > > I do not say this to chastise. I mention it so that you may ask your > question on the appropriate forum, so as to get answers from people who > are more familiar with that domain -- and as such the answers will > probably be more quickly answered and more accurately answered. > > That being said... > > You should read the documentation on Make on how it uses environment > variables. > > 6.9 Variables from the Environment > http://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Environment.html > > You should also verify that your environment variables are exported. If > they are not exported, then they are not visible to child processes. > > HTH, > --Eljay > > -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/using-variables-in-makefile-tp27781832p27790572.html Sent from the gcc - Help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.