[CMake] is it possbile to export environment varibles from cmake scripts?

Alexander Bubnov alexander.bubnov at gmail.com
Mon Jul 7 08:41:53 EDT 2008


Thanks, Andreas and Yuri!

2008/7/7, Andreas Pakulat <apaku at gmx.de>:
> On 07.07.08 16:07:54, Alexander Bubnov wrote:
>  > It is clear. I just would like to know a similiar command of cmake.
>  > ...it is a pity there is no one.
>
>
> You're misunderstanding. Its not possible for any given process (or
>  program) to modify the environment of its parent process. So if you run
>  an application "foo" from a shell, any modifications to environment
>  variables done inside that application are not visible once the
>  application has exited. This is not a limitation of CMake, its a
>  limitation of the operating system (and I don't think there's one
>  without this limitation).
>
>  Even with just a shell and shell scripts you cannot change the
>  environment of the parent shell. All you can do is execute a shell
>  script in the current shell instead of inside a sub-shell (the default
>  if you just execute the script).
>
>  Andreas
>
>
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