[bug #56834] PATH not honored when --disable-posix-spawn is not used

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URL:
  <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?56834>

                 Summary: PATH not honored when --disable-posix-spawn is not
used
                 Project: make
            Submitted by: None
            Submitted on: Fri 30 Aug 2019 12:20:12 PM UTC
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: Bug
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
       Component Version: SCM
        Operating System: POSIX-Based
           Fixed Release: None
           Triage Status: None

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Details:

Hello,

When i build (under linux) make-4.2.90 without --disable-posix-spawn (and not
--disable-pthread-spawn, a typo in NEWS), the PATH variable (set in the
Makefile) is not honored. This is new compared to make-4.2.1.

For example:

% cp /bin/true /tmp/truetrue
% cat Makefile
PATH:=/tmp:/usr/bin
all:; truetrue
%

When make-4.2.90 is build with --enable-posix-spawn (the default), return code
is 2 and i get:

% make
truetrue
make: *** [Makefile;2: target] Error 127
%

When make-4.2.90 is build with --disable-posix-spawn, i get the
correct result (and return code is 0):

% make
truetrue
%

Denis Excoffier.





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