[ET Trac] [Einstein Toolkit] #332: Cactus should not interpret environment variables as configuration options

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#332: Cactus should not interpret environment variables as configuration options
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 Reporter:  hinder  |       Owner:     
     Type:  defect  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  major   |   Milestone:     
Component:  Cactus  |     Version:     
 Keywords:          |  
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 Currently, if you have the variable HDF5_DIR set in your shell startup
 file, Cactus will interpret this as a configuration option and will
 override whatever is set in your optionlist.

 This behaviour occurs because the "make" utility allows you to specify
 options on the command line which are then converted into environment
 variables.  This is a method for overriding options on the command line.

 However, the fact that variables from the user's environment are also
 overriding the optionlist is very undesirable.  It would be good if this
 could be fixed somehow.

 This ticket is in response to #100.

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