title: How to Set Enviornmental Variables that have - (dash) options
body: <p>I am trying to build a piece of software on linux and I need to set up the following environmental variables in a bash shell. </p>
  
  <p>BLAS_LIBRARIES=-L/home/someuser/GotoBLAS2/lib -lgoto2 -lgfortran -lpthread
  CUBLAS_LIBRARIES=-L/usr/local/cuda/4.0.17/cuda/lib64 -lcublas -lcudart -lcuda</p>
  
  <p>When I do this in the bash shell I get the errors:
  bash: -lgoto2: command not found
  bash: -lcublas: command not found</p>
  
  <p>Can anyone tell me how to set these up without getting these errors?</p>