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Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 09:21:37 +1100 (EST)
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On Thu, 10 Jan 2002, Martin Steuer wrote:

> I was wondering why this doesn't work:
> Setting an environment variable via the DOS set-command even within a
> simple make-rule did not change the actual environment. Is this a normal
> behavior and is there any way to circumvent this?

Not sure if this applies to your situation, but I've found that the
environment in Win9x seems to be cached in memory. Changing the config.sys
and autoexec.bat files requires a restart before you can use the new
settings.

And doing a "set" only changes the environment for that shell session, so
if you're trying to call a shell program from within your make file, it
could possibly be the source of the problem

good luck ..