Re: [gentoo-alt] Having a persistent bash environment variable

[Alan Hourihane]

On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 20:42 +0100, Fabian Groffen wrote:
> On 01-02-2008 19:37:18 +0000, Alan Hourihane wrote:
> > What's the best way to have a bash environment variable persist across
> > an emerge ??
> >
> > I've seen the ebuild.sh which filters out bash read only variables, and
> > I've tried inserting mine into that list, but it doesn't seem to work.
>
> While I think this is mainly a Portage related question, still can you
> explain why you want/need to do this?  Or what you want to achieve?

Because the libc I'm using read's an environment variable to determine
functionality, and the emerge process is removing it and changing the
way libc reacts.

Alan.

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