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Old 03-21-2010
setting a path in bash shell
Hello all,

Sorry if the question if stupid but I have no big experience with programming.
I am trying to set a path to be used in a makefile.in, for installation of a Fortran code. The makefile.in contains the string

$(CODE_NAME)

Now, when I type in the bash shell

export CODE_NAME=/Users/laura/code_folder

the compiling starts regularly. In order to automatize the process, I copied the line above in the .bash_profile (I have done this in the past for aliases and it worked). However in this case it does not work. Anybody can tell me what's wrong?

Thanks in advance!
# 2  
Old 03-21-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by laura74
I copied the line above in the .bash_profile
What if you export your variable in the .bashrc instead of .bash_profile?
# 3  
Old 03-21-2010
I have tried, but it doesn't work...
# 4  
Old 03-21-2010
edit the makefile -
Code:
CODE_PATH := /Users/laura/code_folder

# 5  
Old 03-21-2010
I had tried that too, and in the past (with old make files) it had worked. But now it doesn't work anymore. I was actually wondering why!
# 6  
Old 03-21-2010
Back to square one.

What OS are you on? Are you using the implmentation of make that comes with that OS or is it an add-on (like GNU make)
# 7  
Old 03-21-2010
I'm using Mac OS S 10.5.8. I think I'm using the implementation of make that comes with that OS (in the bash shell I just type make install)
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