Re: [bug #27710] variable type not exported into new context

[Andreas Born]

As of r1917 grub_env_context_open still doesn't mark exported variables 
as global in the new context.
Attached patch exports them with grub_env_export in the new context.

Andreas Born schrieb:
> URL:
>   <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?27710>
>
>                  Summary: variable type not exported into new context
>                  Project: GNU GRUB
>             Submitted by: shador
>             Submitted on: Do 15 Okt 2009 15:38:48 GMT
>                 Category: Terminal
>                 Severity: Major
>                 Priority: 5 - Normal
>               Item Group: Software Error
>                   Status: None
>                  Privacy: Public
>              Assigned to: None
>          Originator Name: 
>         Originator Email: 
>              Open/Closed: Open
>          Discussion Lock: Any
>                  Release: 
>                  Release: SVN
>          Reproducibility: Every Time
>          Planned Release: None
>
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> Details:
>
> A variable created and exported afterwards, isn't marked 'export' after a new
> context was created by issuing configfile. Thus if you issue another time
> configfile the variable is unset.
> This means recursive menus deeper than 2 menus are not possible by loading
> another configfile.
>
> Example:
> set blub=blob
> export blub
> configfile <file>
> configfile <file>
> echo $blub
> => nothing, blub was unset after the second configfile (prefix also so
> everything fails).
>
> Workaround:
> In every new context (-> every .cfg file) (re)export the variable (and
> prefix, root).
>
> Attached is a patch which marks variables copied into the new context again
> 'export' preventing breakage of prefix and root.
>
>
>
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> Date: Do 15 Okt 2009 15:38:48 GMT  Name: export-context.diff  Size: 359B  
> By: shador
>
> <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/download.php?file_id=18886>
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