Re: [jamboost] Re: Explicit import of environment variables

From: Victor A. Wagner Jr. (vawjr_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-10-20 11:45:37

At Wednesday 2004-10-20 02:30, you wrote:

>Hi Johan,
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> > under OpenVMS the environment varibles (i.e. logical names) are not
> > imported automatically, presumably because there is no officially
> > supported way to enumerate them.
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>Is it really the case? Even on recent versions?
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> > Would it be possible to add an explicit native rule to do this, asimilar
> > to the w32_getreg functionality? Perhaps vms_import <list of environment
> > var names/logical names>:
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> > var_values_list = [ vms_import "X" "Y" "Z" ] ;

change vms_import to explicit_import
I believe everyone's objections will go away

-or-

can't you do X = $X (that's old make syntax, but you get the drift)
if not, why not?

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> > The values can be accessed using getenv, at least in reasonably recent
> > OpenVMS CRTL versions.
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>I'm not exactly happy about platform specific native rules, but if it's not
>possible to enumerate variables, I don't see any other solution.
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>- Volodya
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