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Isaac
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[BASH]ed my head in

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So if I go

SLDKFJLSKJDF="-Wall" make

What exactly is SLDKFJLSKJDF? It seems to work fine no matter what I change it to.

This remeinds me of

WINEPREFIX=".Officexp2007" wine "/adsf/adsfasdg/adsfdd/setup.exe"

This let me install programs into the file .Officexp2007

Now I'm seeing something similar with

BLAHBLAH="-Wall" make helloworldz

What is this BLAHBLAH="-Wall" thing???

I'd look it up but I'm not even sure that this terminal thing is called.

edit: Ok they're called "environment variables". Got it!
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Re: BASHed my head in

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DOS had em too... Remember SETBLASTER=220,5,1 by any chance?
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Re: BASHed my head in

Post by Jeff250 »

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$ env | grep FOO
$ export FOO=BAR
$ env | grep FOO
FOO=BAR
$ unset FOO
$ env | grep FOO
$ FOO=BAR env | grep FOO
FOO=BAR
$ env | grep DISPLAY
DISPLAY=:0.0
$ echo $DISPLAY
:0.0
SLDKFJLSKJDF="-Wall" make
Assuming this was originally CFLAGS, this environment variable is used by Makefiles to pass options to the compiler. (-Wall enables extra warnings with gcc.)
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