Exporting environment variables to Makefile shell

Question

I want to do immediate expansion of a shell command within a Makefile, but I want the shell command to have access to the environment variables within the Makefile. If I us

Answer 1

Here you go:

export FOO=bar

Here's a page with a lot more info: http://www.cmcrossroads.com/article/basics-getting-environment-variables-gnu-make?page=0%2C1