Add info on env variables for Formula Cookbook #5737
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This explains the levels of environment variable filtering present in Homebrew, explaining how and why variables without a
HOMEBREW_
prefix or those which containTOKEN
etc are made unavailable to a Formula.Previously, this behaviour was unclear (eg
HOMEBREW_FOO
works butHOMEBREW_TOKEN
didn't) so I've added this documentation with references explaining the process. There may be other env filtering at work, but these are the two levels that were influencing my attempts to figure out why a third party formula written some time ago was no longer able to see its environment variable.Have you written new tests for your changes? Here's an example.Have you successfully runbrew style
with your changes locally?Have you successfully runbrew tests
with your changes locally?