Re: Make using a function defined in my .bashrc

[sclemow]

Hi Thanks for all of the replies.

There were two issues, both solved now.

Firstly, I needed to export the defined function from bash using export -f
<func_name>

Secondly, I needed to call the function on the same line as any further
executions that used it's output. This is because it sets a variable, eg :

step
   temp=func1 ; \
   <execute> ; \
   <execute $$temp>
.....
Thanks 

Simon



Greg Chicares-2 wrote:
> 
> On 2008-02-07 15:05Z, sclemow wrote:
>> 
>> I have defined a function in my .bashrc file that I would like to use
>> within
>> a step in my Makefile, however Make doesn't seem to recognise the
>> function
>> exists. Is there a way that I can make it do this?
>> 
>> I have tried it with an alias too, for some reason Make doesn't pick up
>> these from my environment.
> 
> 'make' uses /bin/sh unless you set SHELL in the makefile itself.
> If 'bash' is invoked as 'sh', then it uses '--norc' by default,
> so '~/.bashrc' is skipped.
> 
> I'd try setting SHELL to '/bin/bash' in the makefile. It becomes
> less portable because it depends on 'bash', but that sounds like
> what you want.
> 
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