macOS setting a path in bash shell

[laura74]

Hello all,

Sorry if the question if stupid but I have no big experience with programming.
I am trying to set a path to be used in a makefile.in, for installation of a Fortran code. The makefile.in contains the string

$(CODE_NAME)

Now, when I type in the bash shell

export CODE_NAME=/Users/laura/code_folder

the compiling starts regularly. In order to automatize the process, I copied the line above in the .bash_profile (I have done this in the past for aliases and it worked). However in this case it does not work. Anybody can tell me what's wrong?

Thanks in advance!

 

[Detrius]

I'm no bash expert, so I can't help much there, but since you're trying to set up a global environment variable, you might find this helpful:

defaults write ~/.MacOSX/environment CODE_NAME /Users/laura/code_folder

Then log out and log back in again. It's now part of your environment, regardless the shell being used.