From: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
To: Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko <phcoder@gmail.com>
Cc: The development of GNU GRUB <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: submenu fails to see variables
Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2021 11:30:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210907093001.GA19874@aepfle.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEaD8JPOEeAkrpWZAG-VyaaqXAbX3ca4L1pQeJiEc4wiZ2XWcw@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Sep 06, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:
> Le lun. 6 sept. 2021 à 12:49, Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de> a écrit :
> For some reason global variables are not seen in a submenu {} section.
> Does anyone happen to know why this behavior is useful?
> You need to export variable to make it visible in submenu
Thanks. This was less than obvious. I did not expect a command named 'export' in the context of grub.
The documentation needs to be updated to state what the difference between 'set key=val', 'export key=val' and plain 'key=val' actually is.
Olaf
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-07 9:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-09-06 10:46 submenu fails to see variables Olaf Hering
2021-09-06 13:39 ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
2021-09-07 9:30 ` Olaf Hering [this message]
2021-09-07 10:54 ` Dimitri John Ledkov
2021-09-08 19:24 ` Daniel Kiper
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