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diff --git a/libbuild2/dist/init.cxx b/libbuild2/dist/init.cxx
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--- a/libbuild2/dist/init.cxx
+++ b/libbuild2/dist/init.cxx
@@ -219,6 +219,28 @@ namespace build2
config::unsave_variable (rs, v);
}
+ // Environment.
+ //
+ // Preparing a distribution may involve executing the following
+ // programs:
+ //
+ // install
+ //
+ // While some install implementations recognize environment variables,
+ // none of them affect our invocations (see the install module for
+ // analysis).
+ //
+ // *sum programs (md5sum, sha1sum, sha256sum, etc)
+ //
+ // These do not recognize any environment variables (at least the
+ // GNU coreutils versions).
+ //
+ //
+ // tar, zip, gzip, xz (and whatever tar may invoke)
+ //
+ // This is a can of worms that we currently don't touch (perhaps this
+ // will sort itself out if/when we switch to libarchive).
+
return true;
}