Re: 2 build issues

"Randy.Dunlap" [off-list ref] writes:

On Mon, 14 Aug 2006 15:10:27 -0700 Junio C Hamano wrote:

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I see many documents floating on the web that call CDPATH "an
environment variable".  It is a disease X-<.

What is CDPATH then?  (other than trouble/disease)
I find it useful (usually :).

What I mean is that it belongs to the "set" command output but
should not be in "printenv" command output.

It is a useful shell variable to help interactive use, but it
causes trouble without benefit when exported to the environment
(breaks scripts you invoke without you knowing).  Calling such
a shell variable "an environment variable" is spreading trouble.