#332: Cactus should not interpret environment variables as configuration options --------------------+------------------------------------------------------- Reporter: hinder | Owner: Type: defect | Status: new Priority: major | Milestone: Component: Cactus | Version: Keywords: | --------------------+------------------------------------------------------- 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.