[Xastir] CONFIG_FILES

[Curt, WE7U]

On Mon, 29 Dec 2003, Matt Werner wrote:

> I'm trying to compile xastir on a recent installation of Cygwin.
>
> The system that I'm trying this on is setting the CONFIG_FILES environment variable
> for some other use (Oracle in this case).

Did you also export it?  You need to export the variable from your
shell so that child shells will maintain that value as well in their
environment.


> The ./configure script won't work correctly because it apparently looks at the
> CONFIG_FILES variable near the end of the script.  I have tried setting the
> CONFIG_FILES variable to nothing (CONFIG_FILES=), ., the xastir directory I'm
> compiling in, etc, but nothing seems to work.  Any suggestions how I can overcome
> this small pain in the neck?

Took a quick look at the man page for the BASH shell.  "unset" is
the command for removing an environment variable:

    unset CONFIG_FILES

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